,,standard ,,selections ,a ,,collection ,,and ,,adaptation ,,of ,,superior ,,productions ,,from ,,best ,,authors ,,for ,,use ,,in ,,class ,,room ,,and ,,on ,,the ,,platform ,,arranged ,,and ,,edited ,,by ,,robert ,i4 ,,fulton ,,dean ,,of ,,the ,,school ,,of ,,oratory ,,and ,,professor ,,of ,,elocution ,,and ,,oratory ,,in ,,the ,,ohio ,,wesleyan ,,university ,,thomas ,c4 ,,trueblood ,,professor ,,of ,,elocution ,,and ,,oratory ,,in ,,the ,,university ,,of ,,michigan ,,and ,,edwin ,p4 ,,trueblood ,,professor ,,of ,,elocution ,,and ,,oratory ,,in ,,earlham ,,college ,,ginn ,,and ,,company ,,boston 4 ,,new ,,york 4 ,,chicago 4 ,,london ,,atlanta 4 ,,dallas 4 ,,columbus 4 ,,san ,,francisco ,,copyright1 #aijg1 ,,by ,r4 ,i4 ,,fulton1 ,t4 ,c4 ,,trueblood1 ,,and ,e4 ,p4 ,,trueblood ,,all ,,rights ,,reserved ,the ,athenaeum ,press ,,ginn ,,and ,,company 4 ,,proprietors ,,boston 4 ,u4,s4,a4 ,,preface ,the purpose of the compilers of this volume is3-- ,first1 to provide some new material in poetry and eloquence that has never before appeared in books of this character1 in addition to many standard selections familiar to the general public2 ,second1 to furnish selections that will stand the test of literary criticism and at the same time prove to be popular and successful for public entertainment2 ,third1 to offer for the use of classes in public speaking such carefully selected literature of varied scope as will be helpful and stimulating in the practice of reading aloud and profitable in acquiring power of vocal interpretation2 ,fourth1 to stimulate interest in the works of the authors from whom we have chosen and in the speeches or books from which extracts have been taken2 ,fifth1 to present as models for students in public speaking notable specimens of eloquence1 among which are masterpieces of the seven great orators of the world and from the six great triumphs in the history of ,american oratory2 ,sixth1 to provide carefully chosen scenes from a few standard1 modern dramas for class-room and platform use4 ,in these scenes the attempt has been made to preserve the spirit and unity of the plays1 to shorten them to practical length1 and to adapt them to the demands of the public audience4 ,to avoid reprinting material which is already universally accessible1 we have inserted no scenes from ,shakespeare2 but the reader is referred to ,fulton and ,trueblood's ,choice ,readings 7published by ,ginn and ,company71 which contains copious ,indexes to choice scenes from ,shakespeare1 the ,bible1 and hymn-books4 ,the two volumes include a wide field of literature best suited for public speaking4 ,the selections throughout the book are arranged under six different classes and cover a wide range of thought and emotion4 ,while many shades of feeling may be found in the same selection1 it has been our aim to place each one under the division with which1 as a whole1 it is most closely allied4 ,we are grateful to the many authors and publishers who have courteously permitted us to use their publications4 ,instead of naming them in the preface we have chosen to make due acknowledgment in a footnote wherever their selections appear in the volume4 ,f4 ,,and ,t4 ,,contents ,i ,,narrative1 ,,descriptive1 ,,pathetic ,,page ,arena ,scene from ,quo ,vadis8 ,the ,sienkiewicz4 #a ,arrow and the ,song1 ,the ,longfellow4 #h ,aux ,italiens ,lytton4 #h ,bobby ,shafto ,henry4 #ab ,carcassonne ,nadaud4 #ac ,child-wife1 ,the ,dickens4 #ae ,count ,gismond ,browning4 #ba ,death of ,arbaces1 ,the ,lytton4 #be ,dora ,tennyson4 #cb ,easter with ,parepa1 ,an ,delano4 #cg ,evening ,bells1 ,those ,moore4 #da ,ginevra ,coolidge4 #db ,high ,tide at ,lincolnshire1 ,the ,ingelow4 #dg ,how ,did ,you ,die8 ,cooke4 #eb ,indigo ,bird1 ,the ,burroughs4 #ec ,jackdaw of ,rheims1 ,the ,barham4 #ed ,jaffar ,hunt4 #eg ,jim ,bludsoe ,hay4 #ei ,king ,robert of ,sicily ,longfellow4 #fa ,lady of ,shalott1 ,the ,tennyson4 #fg ,legend of ,service1 ,a ,van ,dyke4 #gb ,little ,boy ,blue ,field4 #gf ,mary's ,night ,ride ,cable4 #gg ,nydia1 the ,blind ,girl ,lytton4 #hj ,o ,captain1 ,my ,captain6 ,whitman4 #hh ,on the ,other ,train ,anon4 #hi ,pansy1 ,the ,anon4 #ib ,revenge1 ,the ,tennyson4 #id ,rider of the ,black ,horse1 ,the ,lippard4 #ih ,sailing beyond ,seas ,ingelow4 #aja ,sands of ,dee1 ,the ,kingsley4 #ajb ,school of ,squeers1 ,the ,dickens4 #ajc ,secret of ,death1 ,the ,arnold4 #aaj ,shamus ,o',brien ,le ,fanu4 #aac ,ships1 ,my ,wilcox4 #aag ,soldier's ,reprieve1 ,the ,robbins4 #aah ,song1 ,the ,scott4 #abc ,stirrup ,cup1 ,the ,hay4 #abd ,swan-song1 ,the ,brooks4 #abe ,sweet ,afton ,burns4 #abi ,violet's ,blue ,henry4 #acj ,waterfowl1 ,to a ,bryant4 #acb ,wedding ,gown1 ,the ,pierce4 #acc ,when the ,snow ,sifts ,through ,gillilan4 #acg ,wild ,flower1 ,to a ,thompson4 #ach ,zoroaster1 ,the ,fate of ,crawford4 #aci ,,ii ,,solemn1 ,,reverential1 ,,sublime ,centennial ,hymn ,whittier4 #add ,chambered ,nautilus1 ,the ,holmes4 #ade ,crossing the ,bar ,tennyson4 #adf ,destruction of ,sennacherib1 ,the ,byron4 #adg ,each and ,all ,emerson4 #adh ,laus ,deo6 ,whittier4 #adi ,pilgrim ,fathers1 ,the ,hemans4 #aea ,present ,crisis1 ,the ,lowell4 #aeb ,recessional1 ,the ,kipling4 #aee ,sacredness of ,work1 ,the ,carlyle4 #aef ,what's ,hallowed ,ground8 ,campbell4 #aeg ,,iii ,,patriotic1 ,,heroic1 ,,oratorical ,the ,seven ,great ,orators of the ,world #aei ,i4 ,demosthenes ,encroachments of ,philip1 ,the #aei ,,ii4 ,cicero ,oration against ,antony #afb ,,iii4 ,chrysostom ,undue ,lamentations over the ,dead #afe ,on ,applauding ,preachers #afg ,,iv4 ,bossuet ,on the ,death of the ,prince of ,conde #afi ,v4 ,chatham ,i4 ,war with ,america #aga ,,ii4 ,attempt to ,subjugate ,america #agc ,,vi4 ,burke ,i4 ,impeachment of ,hastings #age ,,ii4 ,conciliation with ,america #agh ,,iii4 ,english ,privileges in ,america #ahb ,,vii4 ,webster ,i4 ,bunker ,hill ,monument #ahe ,,ii4 ,revolutionary ,patriots #ahh ,,iii4 ,character of ,washington #aia ,six ,great ,triumphs in the ,history of ,american ,oratory #aic ,i4 ,henry ,call to ,arms1 ,the #aic ,,ii4 ,hamilton ,coercion of ,delinquent ,states #aif ,,iii4 ,webster ,reply to ,hayne1 ,the #aii ,,iv4 ,phillips ,murder of ,lovejoy1 ,the #bjb ,v4 ,lincoln ,slavery ,issue1 ,the #bjf ,,vi4 ,beecher ,moral ,aspect of the ,american ,war #bjh ,abolition of ,war ,sumner4 #bab ,american ,flag1 ,the ,beecher4 #bae ,american ,people1 ,the ,beveridge4 #bag ,american ,question1 ,the ,bright4 #bah ,america's ,relation to ,missions ,angell4 #bbj ,american ,slavery ,bright4 #bbb ,armenian ,massacres1 ,the ,gladstone4 #bbb ,battle ,hymn of the ,republic ,howe4 #bbe ,blue and the ,gray1 ,the ,lodge4 #bbf ,corruption of ,prelates ,savonarola4 #bbh ,cross of ,gold1 ,the ,bryan4 #bca ,death of ,congressman ,burnes ,ingalls4 #bce ,death of ,garfield1 ,the ,blaine4 #bcg ,death of ,grady1 ,the ,graves4 #bdf ,death of ,toussaint ,l',ouverture ,phillips4 #bci ,dedication of ,gettysburg ,cemetery1 ,the ,lincoln4 #bda ,fallen ,heroes of ,japan1 ,the ,togo4 #bdb ,glory of ,peace1 ,the ,sumner4 #bdh ,hope of the ,republic1 ,the ,grady4 #bdi ,hungarian ,heroism ,kossuth4 #bej ,international ,relations ,mc,kinley4 #bea ,irish ,home ,rule ,gladstone4 #bee ,lincoln ,castelar4 #beh ,lincoln ,garfield4 #bfj ,louisiana ,purchase ,exposition ,hay4 #bfa ,man with the ,muck-rake1 ,the ,roosevelt4 #bfd ,message to the ,squadron ,togo4 #bga ,minute ,man1 ,the ,curtis4 #bgc ,more ,perfect ,union1 ,a ,curtis4 #bge ,napoleon ,corwin4 #bgh ,napoleon ,ingersoll4 #bgi ,national ,control of ,corporations ,roosevelt4 #bhj ,negro1 ,the ,grady4 #bhc ,new ,england ,quincy4 #bhd ,new ,south1 ,the ,grady4 #bhd ,o',connell ,phillips4 #bij ,open ,door1 ,the ,henry4 #bib ,organization of the ,world ,mead4 #bid ,permanency of ,empire1 ,the ,phillips4 #bif ,pilgrims1 ,the ,phillips4 #big ,principles of the ,founders ,mead4 #bii ,responsibility of ,war1 ,the ,channing4 #cjb ,scotland ,flagg4 #cjd ,secession ,stephens4 #bdc ,second ,inaugural ,address ,lincoln4 #cje ,slavery and the ,union ,lincoln4 #cjg ,subjugation of the ,filipino ,hoar4 #cji ,sufferings and ,destiny of the ,pilgrims ,everett4 #cab ,to ,arms ,kossuth4 #cac ,true ,american ,patriotism ,cockran4 #cad ,vision of ,war ,ingersoll4 #cae ,war in the ,twentieth ,century ,mead4 #cah ,washington ,phillips4 #cba ,,iv ,,gay1 ,,humorous1 ,,comic ,a ,boy's ,mother ,riley4 #cbc ,almost beyond ,endurance ,riley4 #cbd ,bird in the ,hand1 ,a ,weatherly4 #cbh ,breaking the ,charm ,dunbar4 #cbe ,candle ,lightin' ,time ,dunbar4 #cbg ,day of ,judgment1 ,the ,phelps4 #ccj ,de ,appile ,tree ,harris4 #cce ,dooley on ,la ,grippe ,microbes ,dunne4 #ccg ,doctrinal ,discussion1 ,a ,edwards4 #cdj ,finnigin to ,flannigan ,gillilan4 #cdc ,gavroche and the ,elephant ,hugo4 #cde ,hazing of ,valiant1 ,the ,anon4 #cdi ,hindoo's ,paradise1 ,the ,anon4 #cec ,if ,i ,knew ,anon4 #ced ,imaginary ,invalid1 ,the ,jerome4 #ced ,jane ,jones ,king4 #ceg ,knee-deep in ,june ,riley4 #cei ,little ,breeches ,hay4 #cfb ,low-,backed ,car1 ,the ,lover4 #cfd ,mammy's ,pickanin' ,jenkins4 #cff ,mandalay ,kipling4 #cfh ,mr4 ,coon and ,mr4 ,rabbit ,harris4 #cgj ,money ,musk ,taylor4 #cgc ,one-legged ,goose1 ,the ,smith4 #cge ,pessimist1 ,the ,king4 #cgi ,schneider ,sees ,leah ,anon4 #chj ,superfluous ,man1 ,the ,saxe4 #chd ,usual ,way1 ,the ,anon4 #chf ,wedding ,fee1 ,the ,streeter4 #chg ,when ,malindy ,sings ,dunbar4 #chi ,when the ,cows ,come ,home ,mitchell4 #cia ,v ,,dramatic1 ,,not ,,in ,,the ,,drama ,confessional1 ,the ,anon4 #cie ,jean ,valjean and the ,good ,bishop ,hugo4 #djj ,lasca ,anon4 #djd ,michael ,strogoff ,verne4 #djh ,mrs4 ,tree ,richards4 #dad ,portrait1 ,the ,lytton4 #dbc ,tell-tale ,heart1 ,the ,poe4 #dbf ,uncle1 ,the ,bell4 #dca ,,vi ,,scenes ,,from ,,the ,,drama ,beau ,brummell1 ,act ,i1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,,ii1 ,scene #c ,jerrold4 #dfh ,bells1 ,the1 ,act ,,iii1 ,scene ,i ,williams4 #dcg ,lady of ,lyons1 ,the1 ,act ,,ii1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,,iii1 ,scene #b ,lytton4 #dda ,pygmalion and ,galatea1 ,act ,i1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,,ii1 ,scene ,i ,gilbert4 #dic ,rip ,van ,winkle1 ,act ,i1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,,ii1 ,scene ,i ,irving4 #ddi ,rivals1 ,the1 ,act ,i1 ,scene #b2 ,act ,,ii1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,,iii1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,,iv1 ,scene #b ,sheridan4 #ded ,set of ,turquoise1 ,the1 ,act ,i1 ,scene ,i2 ,act ,i1 ,scene #b ,aldrich4 #dgh ,she ,stoops to ,conquer1 ,act ,,ii1 ,scene ,i ,goldsmith4 #dhf ,,index ,,of ,,authors #eji ,,standard ,,selections ,i ,,narrative1 ,,descriptive1 ,,pathetic ,,the ,,arena ,,scene ,,from ,,quo ,,vadis#a ,,henryk ,,sienkiewicz ,the ,roman ,empire in the first century presents the most revolting picture of mankind to be found in the pages of history4 ,society founded on superior force1 on the most barbarous cruelty1 on crime and mad profligacy1 was corrupt beyond the power of words to describe4 ,rome ruled the world1 but was also its ulcer1 and the horrible monster1 ,nero1 guilty of all hideous and revolting crimes1 seems a fit monarch for such a people4 ,a few years ago appeared ,quo ,vadis8 the story from which this selection is made4 ,the book attained so great a popularity1 that it was translated into almost every tongue4 ,in spite of its many faults1 it invited the attention1 and1 although it shocked the sensibilities1 when its great purpose was understood it melted the heart4 ,the author drew a startlingly vivid and horrible picture of humanity at this lowest stage1 and in conflict with it he showed us the ,christ spirit4 ,the extract is the story of how the young ,vinicius1 a patrician1 a soldier1 a courtier of ,nero1 through the labyrinth of foul sin1 of self-worship and self-indulgence1 with love for his guide1 found his way home to the feet of ,him who commanded1 ,be ye pure even as ,i am pure4 ,it is the love story of ,vinicius and the ,princess ,lygia1 a convert to ,christ4 ,the girl's happy and innocent life was rudely disturbed by a summons to the court of the profligate emperor4 ,arrived there1 she found that ,nero had given her to ,vinicius1 who had fallen passionately in love with her2 but on the way to ,vinicius' house she was rescued by the giant ,ursus1 one of her devoted attendants and a member of her own faith4 ,they escaped in safety to the ,christians1 who were living in hiding in the city4 ,the imperious nature of the youthful soldier for the first time in his life met resistance4 ,he was so transported with rage and disappointment that he ordered the slaves from whom ,lygia had escaped to be flogged to death1 while he set out to find the girl who had dared to thwart his desire4 ,his egotism was so great that he would have seen the city and the whole world sunk in ruins rather than fail of his purpose4 ,for days and days his search was unceasing1 and at last he found ,lygia1 but in making a second attempt to carry her off was severely wounded by the giant ,ursus4 ,finding himself helpless in the ,christians' hands1 he expected nothing but death2 but instead he was carefully and tenderly nursed back to health4 ,waking from his delirium1 he found at his bedside ,lygia--,lygia1 whom he had most injured1 watching alone1 while the others had gone to rest4 ,gradually in his pagan head the idea began to hatch with difficulty that at the side of naked beauty1 confident and proud of ,greek and ,roman symmetry1 there is another in the world1 new1 immensely pure1 in which a soul resides4 ,as the days went by1 ,vinicius was thrilled to the very depths of his soul by the consciousness that ,lygia was learning to love him4 ,with that revelation came the certain conviction that his religion would forever make an inseparable barrier between them4 ,then he hated ,christianity with all the powers of his soul1 yet he could not but acknowledge that it had adorned ,lygia with that exceptional1 unexplained beauty1 which was producing in his heart besides love1 respect2 besides desire1 homage4 ,yet1 when he thought of accepting the religion of the ,nazarene1 all the ,roman in him rose up in revolt against the idea4 ,he knew that if he were to accept that teaching he would have to throw1 as on a burning pile1 all his thoughts1 ideas1 ambitions1 habits of life1 his very nature up to that moment1 burn them into ashes and fill himself with an entirely new life1 and from his soul he cried that it was impossible2 it was impossible6 ,before ,vinicius had entirely recovered ,nero commanded his presence at ,antium1 whither the court was going for the hot summer months4 ,nero was ambitious to write an immortal epic poem which should rival the ,odyssey1 and in order that he might describe realistically a burning city1 gave a secret command while he was in ,antium that ,rome should be set on fire4 ,one evening1 when the court was assembled to hear ,nero recite some of his poetry1 a slave appeared4 ,pardon1 ,divine ,imperator1 ,rome is burning6 ,the whole city is a sea of flames6 ,a moment of horrified silence followed1 broken by the cry of ,vinicius4 ,he rushed forth1 and1 springing on his horse1 dashed into the deep night4 ,a horseman1 rushing also like a whirlwind1 but in the opposite direction1 toward ,antium1 shouted as he raced past3 ,rome is perishing6 ,to the ears of ,vinicius came only one more expression3 ,gods6 ,the rest was drowned by the thunder of hoofs4 ,but the expression sobered him4 ,gods6 ,he raised his head suddenly1 and1 stretching his arms toward the sky filled with stars1 began to pray4 ,not to you1 whose temples are burning1 do ,i call1 but to ,thee4 ,thou ,thyself hast suffered4 ,thou alone hast understood people's pain4 ,if ,thou art what ,peter and ,paul declare1 save ,lygia4 ,seek her in the burning2 save her and ,i will give ,thee my blood6 ,before he had reached the top of the mountain he felt the wind on his face1 and with it the odor of smoke came to his nostrils4 ,he touched the summit at last1 and then a terrible sight struck his eyes4 ,the whole lower region was covered with smoke1 but beyond this gray1 ghastly plain the city was burning on the hills4 ,the conflagration had not the form of a pillar1 but of a long belt1 shaped like the dawn4 ,vinicius' horse1 choking with the smoke1 became unmanageable4 ,he sprang to the earth and rushed forward on foot4 ,the tunic began to smolder on him in places2 breath failed his lungs2 strength failed his bones2 he fell6 ,two men1 with gourds full of water1 ran to him and bore him away4 ,when he regained consciousness he found himself in a spacious cave1 lighted with torches and tapers4 ,he saw a throng of people kneeling1 and over him bent the tender1 beautiful face of his soul's beloved4 ,lygia was indeed safe from the burning1 but before the first thrill of relief was over an infinitely more horrible danger threatened her4 ,the people were in wrath and threatened violence to ,nero and his court1 for it was popularly believed that the city had been set on fire at the emperor's instigation4 ,the coward1 ,nero1 was startled and thoroughly alarmed1 and welcomed gladly the suggestion that the calamity should be blamed on the ,christians1 who were viewed with great suspicion by the common people1 and obliged even then to live in hiding4 ,in order to clear himself and to divert the people's minds1 he instituted at once against the ,christians the most horrible persecutions that have ever stained man's history4 ,for days and days the people came in countless numbers to witness the tortures of the innocent victims2 but at last they grew weary of blood-spilling4 ,then it was given out that ,nero had arranged a climax for the last of the ,christians who were to die at an evening spectacle in a brilliantly lighted amphitheater4 ,chief interest both of the ,augustinians and the people centered in ,lygia and ,vinicius1 for the story of their love was now generally known1 and everybody felt that ,nero was intending to make a tragedy for himself out of the suffering of ,vinicius4 ,at last the evening arrived4 ,the sight was in truth magnificent4 ,all that was powerful1 brilliant and wealthy in ,rome was there4 ,the lower seats were crowded with togas as white as snow4 ,in a gilded padium sat ,nero1 wearing a diamond collar and a golden crown upon his head4 ,every eye was turned with strained gaze to the place where the unfortunate lover was sitting4 ,he was exceedingly pale1 and his forehead was covered with drops of sweat4 ,to his tortured mind came the thought that faith of itself would spare ,lygia4 ,peter had said that faith would move the earth to its foundations4 ,he crushed doubt in himself1 compressed his whole being into the sentence1 ,i believe1 and he looked for a miracle4 ,the prefect of the city waved a red handkerchief1 and out of the dark gully into the brilliantly lighted arena came ,ursus4 ,in ,rome there was no lack of gladiators1 larger by far than the common measure of man2 but ,roman eyes had never seen the like of ,ursus4 ,the people gazed with the delight of experts at his mighty limbs1 as large as tree trunks2 at his breast1 as large as two shields joined together1 and his arms of a ,hercules4 ,he was unarmed1 and had determined to die as became a follower of the ,lamb1 peacefully and patiently4 ,meanwhile he wished to pray once more to the ,saviour4 ,so he knelt on the arena1 joined his hands and raised his eyes towards the stars4 ,this act displeased the crowd4 ,they had had enough of those ,christians1 who died like sheep4 ,they understood that if the giant would not defend himself1 the spectacle would be a failure4 ,here and there hisses were heard4 ,some began to cry for scourgers1 whose office it was to lash combatants unwilling to fight4 ,but soon all had grown silent1 for no one knew what was waiting for the giant1 nor whether he would not defend himself when he met death eye to eye4 ,in fact1 they had not long to wait4 ,suddenly the shrill sound of brazen trumpets was heard1 and at that signal into the arena rushed1 amid the shouts of the beast-keepers1 an enormous ,german aurochs1 bearing on his head the naked body of a woman4 ,vinicius sprang to his feet4 ,lygia6 ,oh1 444 ,i believe6 ,i believe6 ,oh1 ,christ1 a miracle6 a miracle6 ,and he did not even know that ,petronius had covered his head at that moment with a toga4 ,he did not look2 he did not see4 ,the feeling of some awful emptiness possessed him4 ,in his head there remained not a thought4 ,his lips merely repeated as if in madness1 ,i believe6 ,i believe6 ,i believe6 ,this time the amphitheater was silent1 for in the arena something uncommon had happened4 ,that giant1 obedient and ready to die1 when he saw his queen on the horns of the wild beast1 sprang up1 as if touched by living fire1 and1 bending forward1 he ran at the raging animal4 ,from all breasts a sudden cry of amazement was heard1 as the giant fell on the raging bull and seized him by the horns4 ,and then came deep silence4 ,all breasts ceased to breathe4 ,in the amphitheater a fly might be heard on the wing4 ,people could not believe their own eyes4 ,since ,rome was ,rome no one had ever seen such a spectacle4 ,the man's feet sank in the sand to his ankle2 his back was bent like a bow2 his head was hidden between his shoulders2 on his arms the muscles came out so that the skin almost burst from their pressure2 but he had stopped the bull in his tracks4 ,the man and the bull remained so still that the spectators thought themselves looking at a group hewn in stone4 ,but in that apparent repose there was a tremendous exertion of two struggling forces4 ,the bull's feet1 as well as the man's1 sank in the sand1 and the dark1 shaggy body was curved so that it seemed a gigantic ball4 ,which of the two would fail first8 ,which would fall first8 ,meanwhile a dull roar resembling a groan was heard from the arena1 after which a brief shout was wrested from every breast1 and again there was silence4 ,duller and duller1 hoarser and hoarser1 more and more painful grew the groan of the bull as it mingled with the whistling breath from the breast of the giant4 ,the head of the beast began to turn in the iron hands of the barbarian1 and from his jaws crept forth a long1 foaming tongue4 ,a moment more and to the ears of the spectators sitting nearer came1 as it were1 the crack of breaking bones2 then the beast rolled on the earth1 dead4 ,the giant removed in a twinkling the ropes that bound the maiden to the horns of the bull4 ,his face was very pale2 he stood as if only half conscious2 then he raised his eyes and looked at the spectators4 ,the amphitheater had gone wild4 ,the walls of the building were trembling from the roar of tens of thousands of people4 ,everywhere were heard cries for mercy1 passionate and persistent1 which soon turned into one unbroken thunder4 ,the giant understood that they were asking for his life and liberty1 but his thoughts were not for himself4 ,he raised the unconscious maiden in his arms1 and1 going to ,nero's padium1 held her up and looked up imploringly4 ,vinicius sprang over the barrier1 which separated the lower seats from the arena1 and1 running to ,lygia1 covered her with his toga4 ,then he tore apart the tunic on his breast1 laid bare the scars left by wounds received in the ,armenian war1 and stretched out his hands to the multitude4 ,at this the enthusiasm passed everything ever seen in a circus before4 ,voices choking with tears began to demand mercy4 ,yet ,nero halted and hesitated4 ,he would have preferred to see the giant and the maiden rent by the horns of the bull4 ,nero was alarmed4 ,he understood that to oppose longer was simply dangerous4 ,a disturbance begun in the circus might seize the whole city4 ,he looked once more1 and1 seeing everywhere frowning brows1 excited faces and eyes fixed on him1 he slowly raised his hand and gave the sign for mercy4 ,then a thunder of applause broke from the highest seats to the lowest4 ,but ,vinicius heard it not4 ,he dropped on his knees in the arena1 stretched his hands toward heaven and cried3 ,i believe6 ,oh1 ,christ6 ,i believe6 ,i believe6 ,,footnote3 #a ,copyright1 #ahif1 by ,jeremiah ,curtin4 ,,the ,,arrow ,,and ,,the ,,song#b ,h4 ,w4 ,,longfellow ,i shot an arrow into the air4 ,it fell to earth1 ,i knew not where2 ,for1 so swiftly it flew1 the sight ,could not follow in its flight4 ,i breathed a song into the air4 ,it fell to earth1 ,i knew not where2 ,for who has sight so keen and strong ,that it can follow the flight of song4 ,long1 long afterward1 in an oak1 ,i found the arrow still unbroke2 ,and the song1 from beginning to end1 ,i found again in the heart of a friend4 ,,footnote3 #b ,used by permission of ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 publishers of his works4 ,,aux ,,italiens ,r4 ,,bulwer ,,lytton ,at ,paris it was1 at the opera there2 ,and she looked like a queen that night1 ,with a wreath of pearl in her raven hair1 ,and the brooch in her breast so bright4 ,of all the operas that ,verdi wrote1 ,the best1 to my taste1 is the ,trovatore3 ,and ,mario can soothe1 with a tenor note1 ,the souls in purgatory4 ,the moon on the tower slept soft as snow2 ,and who was not thrilled in the strangest way1 ,as we heard him sing1 while the gas burned low1 ,non ti scordar di me8 ,the ,emperor there in his box of state1 ,looked grave2 as if he had just then seen ,the red flag wave from the city gate1 ,where the eagles in bronze had been4 ,the ,empress1 too1 had a tear in her eye2 ,you'd have thought that her fancy had gone back again1 ,for one moment1 under the old blue sky1 ,to that old glad life in ,spain4 ,well6 there in our front row box we sat ,together1 my bride betrothed and ,i2 ,my gaze was fixed on my opera hat1 ,and hers on the stage hard by4 ,and both were silent and both were sad2 ,like a queen she leaned on her full white arm1 ,with that regal indolent air she had2 ,so confident of her charm6 ,i have not a doubt she was thinking then ,of her former lord1 good soul that he was1 ,who died the richest and roundest of men1 ,the ,marquis of ,carabas4 ,i hope that1 to get to the kingdom of heaven1 ,through a needle's eye he had not to pass2 ,i wish him well for the jointure given ,to my lady of ,carabas4 ,meanwhile ,i was thinking of my first love ,as ,i had not been thinking of aught for years2 ,till over my eyes there began to move ,something that felt like tears4 ,i thought of the dress that she wore last time1 ,when we stood neath the cypress-trees together1 ,in that lost land1 in that soft clime1 ,in the crimson evening weather2 ,of that muslin dress 7for the eve was hot72 ,and her warm white neck in its golden chain2 ,and her full soft hair just tied in a knot1 ,and falling loose again4 ,and the ,jasmine flower in her fair young breast2 7,o the faint sweet smell of that ,jasmine flower67 ,and the one bird singing alone to its nest2 ,and the one star over the tower4 ,i thought of our little quarrels and strife1 ,and the letter that brought me back my ring2 ,and it all seemed there in the waste of life1 ,such a very little thing4 ,for ,i thought of her grave below the hill1 ,which the sentinel cypress-tree stands over2 ,and ,i thought1 ,were she only living still1 ,how ,i could forgive her and love her6 ,and ,i swear as ,i thought of her thus in that hour1 ,and of how1 after all1 old things are best1 ,that ,i smelt the smell of that ,jasmine flower ,which she used to wear in her breast4 ,and ,i turned and looked2 she was sitting there1 ,in a dim box over the stage2 and drest ,in that muslin dress1 with that full soft hair1 ,and that ,jasmine in her breast6 ,i was here1 and she was there2 ,and the glittering horse-shoe curved between2-- ,from my bride betrothed1 with her raven hair ,and her sumptuous scornful mien1 ,to my early love with her eyes downcast1 ,and over her primrose face the shade1 7,in short from the future back to the past7 ,there was but a step to be made4 ,to my early love from my future bride ,one moment ,i looked1 then ,i stole to the door1 ,i traversed the passage2 and down at her side ,i was sitting a moment more4 ,my thinking of her or the music's strain1 ,or something which never will be expressed1 ,had brought her back from the grave again1 ,with the ,jasmine in her breast4 ,she is not dead1 and she is not wed6 ,but she loves me now and she loved me then6 ,and the very first words that her sweet lips said1 ,my heart grew youthful again4 ,the ,marchioness there1 of ,carabas1 ,she is wealthy and young and handsome still1 ,and but for her 444 well1 we'll let that pass2 ,she may marry whomever she will4 ,but ,i will marry my own first love1 ,with her primrose face1 for old things are best2 ,and the flower in her bosom1 ,i prize it above ,the brooch in my lady's breast4 ,the world is filled with folly and sin1 ,and love must cling where it can1 ,i say1 ,for beauty is easy enough to win1 ,but one isn't loved every day4 ,and ,i think in the lives of most women and men1 ,there's a moment when all would go smooth and even1 ,if only the dead could find out when ,to come back and be forgiven4 ,but ,o6 the smell of that ,jasmine flower6 ,and ,o that music6 and ,o the way ,that voice rang out from the donjon tower1 ,non ti scordar di me1 ,non ti scordar di me6 ,,bobby ,,shafto#c ,,daniel ,,henry1 ,,jr4 ,theme4 ,bobby ,shafto's gone to sea3-- ,silver buckles on his knee-- ,he'll come back and marry me1 ,pretty ,bobby ,shafto6 ,mother ,goose ,melodies4 ,with his treasures won at sea1 ,spanish gold and ,portugee1 ,and his heart1 still fast to me1 ,pretty ,bobby ,shafto6 ,in a captain's pomp and pride1 ,with a gold sword at his side1 ,he'll come back to claim his bride1 ,pretty ,bobby ,shafto6 ,so she sang1 the winter long1 ,till the sun came1 golden-strong1 ,and the blue birds caught her song3 ,all of ,bobby ,shafto4 ,days went by1 and autumn came1 ,eyes grew dim1 and feet went lame1 ,but the song1 it was the same1 ,all of ,bobby ,shafto4 ,never came across the sea1 ,silver buckles on his knee1 ,bobby to his bride-to-be1 ,fickle ,bobby ,shafto6 ,for where midnight never dies1 ,in the ,storm-,king's caves of ice1 ,stiff and stark1 poor ,bobby lies-- ,heigho6 ,bobby ,shafto4 ,,footnote3 #c ,from ,under a ,fool's ,cap4 ,,carcassonne ,,gustav ,,nadaud1 translated by ,m4 ,e4 ,w4 ,,sherwood ,how old ,i am6 ,i'm eighty years6 ,i've worked both hard and long2 ,yet patient as my life has been1 ,one dearest sight ,i have not seen1-- ,it almost seems a wrong4 ,a dream ,i had when life was new2 ,alas1 our dreams6 they come not true2 ,i thought to see fair ,carcassonne1-- ,that lovely city1--,carcassonne6 ,one sees it dimly from the height ,beyond the mountains blue1 ,fain would ,i walk five weary leagues1-- ,i do not mind the road's fatigues1-- ,through morn and evening's dew2 ,but bitter frost would fall at night2 ,and on the grapes1--that yellow blight6 ,i could not go to ,carcassonne1 ,i never went to ,carcassonne4 ,they say it is as gay all times ,as holidays at home6 ,the gentles ride in gay attire1 ,and in the sun each gilded spire ,shoots up like those of ,rome6 ,the bishop the procession leads1 ,the generals curb their prancing steeds4 ,alas6 ,i know not ,carcassonne-- ,alas6 ,i saw not ,carcassonne6 ,our ,vicar's right6 he preaches loud1 ,and bids us to beware2 ,he says1 ',o guard the weakest-part1 ,and most that traitor in the heart ,against ambition's snare4' ,perhaps in autumn ,i can find ,two sunny days with gentle wind2 ,i then could go to ,carcassonne1 ,i still could go to ,carcassonne4 ,my ,god1 my ,father6 pardon me ,if this my wish offends2 ,one sees some hope more high than his1 ,in age1 as in his infancy1 ,to which his heart ascends6 ,my wife1 my son have seen ,narbonne1 ,my grandson went to ,perpignan1 ,but ,i have not seen ,carcassonne1 ,but ,i have not seen ,carcassonne4 ,thus sighed a peasant bent with age1 ,half-dreaming in his chair2 ,i said1 ,my friend1 come go with me ,to-morrow1 then thine eyes shall see ,those streets that seem so fair4 ,that night there came for passing soul ,the church-bell's low and solemn toll4 ,he never saw gay ,carcassonne4 ,who has not known a ,carcassonne8 ,,the ,,child-,,wife ,,charles ,,dickens ,all this time ,i had gone on loving ,dora harder than ever4 ,if ,i may so express it1 ,i was steeped in ,dora4 ,i was not merely over head and ears in love with her1 ,i was saturated through and through4 ,i took night walks to ,norwood where she lived1 and perambulated round and round the house and garden for hours together1 looking through crevices in the palings1 using violent exertions to get my chin above the rusty nails on the top1 blowing kisses at the lights in the windows1 and romantically calling on the night to shield my ,dora1--,i don't exactly know from what1--,i suppose from fire1 perhaps from mice1 to which she had a great objection4 ,dora had a discreet friend1 comparatively stricken in years1 almost of the ripe age of twenty1 ,i should say1 whose name was ,miss ,mills4 ,dora called her ,julia4 ,she was the bosom friend of ,dora4 ,happy ,miss ,mills6 ,one day ,miss ,mills said3 ,dora is coming to stay with me4 ,she is coming the day after to-morrow4 ,if you would like to call1 ,i am sure papa would be happy to see you4 ,i passed three days in a luxury of wretchedness4 ,at last1 arrayed for the purpose1 at a vast expense1 ,i went to ,miss ,mills's1 fraught with a declaration4 ,mr4 ,mills was not at home4 ,i didn't expect he would be4 ,nobody wanted him4 ,miss ,mills was at home4 ,miss ,mills would do4 ,i was shown into a room upstairs1 where ,miss ,mills and ,dora were4 ,dora's little dog ,jip was there4 ,miss ,mills was copying music1 and ,dora was painting flowers4 ,what were my feelings when ,i recognized flowers ,i had given her6 ,miss ,mills was very glad to see me1 and very sorry her papa was not at home1 though ,i thought we all bore that with fortitude4 ,miss ,mills was conversational for a few minutes1 and then laying down her pen1 got up and left the room4 ,i began to think ,i would put it off till to-morrow4 ,i hope your poor horse was not tired when he got home at night from that picnic1 said ,dora1 lifting up her beautiful eyes4 ,it was a long way for him4 ,i began to think ,i would do it to-day4 ,it was a long way for him1 for he had nothing to uphold him on the journey4 ,wasn't he fed1 poor thing8 ,i began to think ,i would put it off till to-morrow4 ,ye-yes1 he was well taken care of4 ,i mean he had not the unutterable happiness that ,i had in being so near to you4 ,i saw now that ,i was in for it1 and it must be done on the spot4 ,i don't know why you should care for being near me1 or why you should call it a happiness4 ,but of course you don't mean what you say4 ,jip1 you naughty boy1 come here6 ,i don't know how ,i did it1 but ,i did it in a moment4 ,i intercepted ,jip4 ,i had ,dora in my arms4 ,i was full of eloquence4 ,i never stopped for a word4 ,i told her how ,i loved her4 ,i told her ,i should die without her4 ,i told her that ,i idolized and worshiped her4 ,jip barked madly all the time4 ,my eloquence increased1 and ,i said if she would like me to die for her1 she had but to say the word1 and ,i was ready4 ,i had loved her to distraction every minute1 day and night1 since ,i first set eyes upon her4 ,i loved her at that minute to distraction4 ,i should always love her1 every minute1 to distraction4 ,lovers had loved before1 and lovers would love again2 but no lover had ever loved1 might1 could1 would1 or should ever love1 as ,i loved ,dora4 ,the more ,i raved1 the more ,jip barked4 ,each of us in his own way got more mad every moment4 ,well1 well6 ,dora and ,i were sitting on the sofa by and by quiet enough1 and ,jip was lying in her lap winking peacefully at me4 ,it was off my mind4 ,i was in a state of perfect rapture4 ,dora and ,i were engaged4 ,being poor1 ,i felt it necessary the next time ,i went to my darling to expatiate on that unfortunate drawback4 ,i soon carried desolation into the bosom of our joys--not that ,i meant to do it1 but that ,i was so full of the subject--by asking ,dora without the smallest preparation1 if she could love a beggar4 ,how can you ask me anything so foolish8 ,love a beggar6 ,dora1 my own dearest1 ,i am a beggar6 ,how can you be such a silly thing1 replied ,dora1 slapping my hand1 as to sit there telling such stories8 ,i'll make ,jip bite you1 if you are so ridiculous4 ,but ,i looked so serious that ,dora began to cry4 ,she did nothing but exclaim1 ,o dear6 ,o dear6 ,and oh1 she was so frightened6 ,and where was ,julia ,mills8 ,and oh1 take her to ,julia ,mills1 and go away1 please6 until ,i was almost beside myself4 ,i thought ,i had killed her4 ,i sprinkled water on her face2 ,i went down on my knees2 ,i plucked at my hair2 ,i implored her forgiveness2 ,i besought her to look up2 ,i ravaged ,miss ,mills's work-box for a smelling-bottle1 and in my agony of mind1 applied an ivory needle-case instead1 and dropped all the needles over ,dora4 ,at last ,i got ,dora to look at me1 with a horrified expression which ,i gradually soothed until it was only loving1 and her soft1 pretty cheek was lying against mine4 ,is your heart mine still1 dear ,dora8 ,o yes6 ,o yes6 it's all yours1 oh1 don't be dreadful4 ,my dearest love1 the crust well earned-- ,o yes2 but ,i don't want to hear any more about crusts4 ,and after we are married1 ,jip must have a mutton chop every day at twelve1 or he'll die4 ,i was charmed with her childish1 winning way1 and ,i fondly explained to her that ,jip should have his mutton chop with his accustomed regularity4 ,when we had been engaged some half-year or so1 ,dora delighted me by asking me to give her that cookery-book ,i had once spoken of1 and to show her how to keep accounts1 as ,i had once promised ,i would4 ,i brought the volume with me on my next visit 7,i got it prettily bound1 first1 to make it look less dry and more inviting71 and showed her an old housekeeping book of my aunt's1 and gave her a set of tablets1 and a pretty little pencil-case1 and a box of leads1 to practice housekeeping with4 ,but the cookery-book made ,dora's head ache1 and the figures made her cry4 ,they wouldn't add up1 she said4 ,so she rubbed them out1 and drew little nosegays1 and likenesses of me and ,jip1 all over the tablets4 ,time went on1 and at last1 here in this hand of mine1 ,i held the wedding license4 ,there were the two names in the sweet old visionary connection1--,david ,copperfield and ,dora ,spenlow2 and there in the corner was that parental institution1 the ,stamp ,office1 looking down upon our union2 and there1 in the printed form of words1 was the ,archbishop of ,canterbury1 invoking a blessing on us and doing it as cheap as could possibly be expected4 ,i doubt whether two young birds could have known less about keeping house than ,i and my pretty ,dora did4 ,we had a servant1 of course4 ,she kept house for us4 ,we had an awful time of it with ,mary ,anne4 ,she was the cause of our first little quarrel4 ,my dearest life1 ,i said one day to ,dora1 do you think ,mary ,anne has any idea of time8 ,why1 ,doady8 ,my love1 because it's five1 and we were to have dined at four4 ,my little wife came and sat upon my knee1 to coax me to be quiet1 and drew a line with her pencil down the middle of my nose2 but ,i couldn't dine off that1 though it was very agreeable4 ,don't you think1 my dear1 it would be better for you to remonstrate with ,mary ,anne8 ,o no1 please6 ,i couldn't1 ,doady6 ,why not1 my love8 ,o1 because ,i am such a little goose1 and she knows ,i am6 ,i thought this sentiment so incompatible with the establishment of any system of check on ,mary ,anne1 that ,i frowned a little4 ,my precious wife1 we must be serious some times4 ,come6 sit down on this chair1 close beside me6 ,give me the pencil6 ,there6 ,now let us talk sensibly4 ,you know1 dear1 what a little hand it was to hold1 and what a tiny wedding ring it was to see1--you know1 my love1 it is not exactly comfortable to have to go out without one's dinner4 ,now1 is it8 ,n-n-no6 ,my love1 how you tremble6 ,because1 ,i know you're going to scold me4 ,my sweet1 ,i am only going to reason4 ,o1 but reasoning is worse than scolding6 ,i didn't marry to be reasoned with4 ,if you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as ,i am1 you ought to have told me so1 you cruel boy6 ,dora1 my darling6 ,no1 ,i am not your darling4 ,because you must be sorry that you married me1 or else you wouldn't reason with me6 ,i felt so injured by the inconsequential nature of this charge1 that it gave me courage to be grave4 ,now1 my own ,dora1 you are childish1 and are talking nonsense4 ,you must remember1 ,i am sure1 that ,i was obliged to go out yesterday when dinner was half over2 and that1 the day before1 ,i was made quite unwell by being obliged to eat underdone veal in a hurry2 to-day1 ,i don't dine at all1 and ,i am afraid to say how long we waited for breakfast1 and then the water didn't boil4 ,i don't mean to reproach you1 my dear1 but this1 is not comfortable4 ,oh1 you cruel1 cruel boy1 to say ,i am a disagreeable wife6 ,now1 my dear ,dora1 you must know that ,i never said that6 ,you said ,i wasn't comfortable6 ,i said the housekeeping was not comfortable6 ,it's exactly the same thing6 and ,i wonder1 ,i do1 at your making such ungrateful speeches4 ,when you know that the other day1 when you said you would like a little bit of fish1 ,i went out myself1 miles and miles1 and ordered it to surprise you4 ,and it was very kind of you1 my own darling2 and ,i felt it so much that ,i wouldn't on any account have mentioned that you bought a salmon1 which was too much for two2 or that it cost one pound six1 which was more than we can afford4 ,you enjoyed it very much4 ,and you said ,i was a ,mouse4 ,and ,i'll say so again1 my love1 a thousand times6 ,i said it a thousand times1 and more1 and went on saying it until ,mary ,anne's cousin deserted into our coal-hole and was brought out1 to our great amazement1 by a picket of his companions in arms1 who took him away handcuffed in a procession that covered our front garden with disgrace4 ,i am very sorry for all this1 ,doady4 ,will you call me a name ,i want you to call me8 ,what is it1 my dear8 ,it's a stupid name1--,child-wife4 ,when you are going to be angry with me1 say to yourself1 ',it's only my ,child-wife4' ,when ,i am very disappointing1 say1 ',i knew a long time ago1 that she would make but a ,child-wife4' ,when you miss what you would like me to be1 and what ,i think ,i never can be1 say1 ',still my foolish ,child-wife loves me4' ,for indeed ,i do4 ,i invoke the innocent figure that ,i dearly loved to come out of the mists and shadows of the past1 and to turn its gentle head toward me once again1 and to bear witness that it was made happy by what ,i answered4 ,,count ,,gismond ,,robert ,,browning ,christ ,god1 who savest man1 save most ,of men ,count ,gismond who saved me6 ,count ,gauthier1 when he chose his post1 ,chose time and place and company ,to suit it2 when he struck at length ,my honor1 'twas with all his strength4 ,and doubtlessly ere he could draw ,all points to one1 he must have schemed6 ,that miserable morning saw ,few half so happy as ,i seemed1 ,while being dressed in queen's array ,to give our tourney prize away4 ,i thought they loved me1 did me grace ,to please themselves2 'twas all their deed2 ,god makes1 or fair or foul1 our face2 ,if showing mine so caused to bleed ,my cousins' hearts1 they should have dropped ,a word1 and straight the play had stopped4 ,they1 too1 so beauteous6 ,each a queen ,by virtue of her brow and breast2 ,not needing to be crowned1 ,i mean1 ,as ,i do4 ,e'en when ,i was dressed1 ,had either of them spoke1 instead ,of glancing sideways with still head6 ,but no3 they let me laugh and sing ,my birthday song quite through1 adjust ,the last rose in my garland1 fling ,a last look on the mirror1 trust ,my arms to each an arm of theirs1 ,and so descend the castle-stairs-- ,and come out on the morning-troop ,of merry friends who kissed my cheek1 ,and called me queen1 and made me stoop ,under the canopy--7a streak ,that pierced it1 of the outside sun1 ,powdered with gold its gloom's soft dun7-- ,and they could let me take my state ,and foolish throne amid applause ,of all come there to celebrate ,my queen's-day--,oh ,i think the cause ,of much was1 they forgot no crowd ,makes up for parents in their shroud6 ,howe'er that be1 all eyes were bent ,upon me1 when my cousins cast ,theirs down2 'twas time ,i should present ,the victor's crown1 but 444 there1 'twill last ,no long time 444 the old mist again ,blinds me as it did then4 ,how vain6 ,see6 ,gismond's at the gate1 in talk ,with his two boys3 ,i can proceed4 ,well1 at that moment1 who should stalk ,forth boldly--to my face1 indeed-- ,but ,gauthier1 and he thundered1 ,stay6 ,and all stayed4 ,bring no crowns1 ,i say6 ,bring torches6 ,wind the penance-sheet ,about her6 ,let her cleave to right1 ,or lay herself before our feet6 ,shall she who sinned so bold at night ,unblushing1 queen it in the day8 ,for honor's sake1 no crowns1 ,i say6 ,i8 ,what ,i answered8 ,as ,i live1 ,i never fancied such a thing ,as answer possible to give4 ,what says the body when they spring ,some monstrous torture-engine's whole ,strength on it8 ,no more says the soul4 ,till out strode ,gismond2 then ,i knew ,that ,i was saved4 ,i never met ,his face before1 but1 at first view1 ,i felt quite sure that ,god had set ,himself to ,satan2 who would spend ,a minute's mistrust on the end8 ,he strode to ,gauthier1 in his throat ,gave him the lie1 then struck his mouth ,with one back-handed blow that wrote ,in blood men's verdict there4 ,north1 ,south1 ,east1 ,west1 ,i looked4 ,the lie was dead1 ,and damned1 and truth stood up instead4 ,this glads me most1 that ,i enjoyed ,the heart of the joy1 with my content ,in watching ,gismond unalloyed ,by any doubt of the event3 ,god took that on him--,i was bid ,watch ,gismond for my part3 ,i did4 ,did ,i not watch him while he let ,his armorer just brace his greaves1 ,rivet his hauberk1 on the fret ,the while6 ,his foot 444 my memory leaves ,no least stamp out1 nor how anon ,he pulled his ringing gauntlets on4 ,and e'en before the trumpet's sound ,was finished1 prone lay the false knight1 ,prone as his lie1 upon the ground3 ,gismond flew at him1 used no sleight ,o' the sword1 but open-breasted drove1 ,cleaving till out the truth he clove4 ,which done1 he dragged him to my feet ,and said1 ,here die1 but end thy breath ,in full confession1 lest thou fleet ,from my first1 to ,god's second death6 ,say1 hast thou lied8 ,and1 ,i have lied ,to ,god and her1 he said1 and died4 ,then ,gismond1 kneeling to me1 asked --,what safe my heart holds1 though no word ,could ,i repeat now1 if ,i tasked ,my powers forever1 to a third ,dear even as you are4 ,pass the rest ,until ,i sank upon his breast4 ,over my head his arm he flung ,against the world2 and scarce ,i felt ,his sword 7that dripped by me and swung7 ,a little shifted in its belt2 ,for he began to say the while ,how ,south our home lay many a mile4 ,so 'mid the shouting multitude ,we two walked forth to never more ,return4 ,my cousins have pursued ,their life1 untroubled as before ,i vexed them4 ,gauthier's dwelling-place ,god lighten6 ,may his soul find grace6 ,our elder boy has got the clear ,great brow2 though when his brother's black ,full eye shows scorn1 it 444 ,gismond here8 ,and have you brought your tercel back8 ,i just was telling ,adela ,how many birds it struck since ,may4 ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,arbaces#d ,,edward ,,bulwer ,,lytton ,in the eventful year of the eruption of ,vesuvius1 there lived in ,pompeii a young ,greek by the name of ,glaucus4 ,heaven had given him every blessing but one2 it had denied him the heritage of freedom4 ,he was born in ,athens1 the subject of ,rome4 ,succeeding early to an ample inheritance1 he had indulged that inclination for travel1 so natural to the young1 and consequently knew much of the gorgeous luxuries of the imperial court4 ,his ideals in life were high4 ,at last he discovered the long-sought idol of his dreams in the person of ,ione1 a beautiful1 young ,neapolitan1 also of ,greek parentage1 who had lately come to ,pompeii4 ,she was one of those brilliant characters which seldom flash across our career4 ,she united in the highest perfection the rarest of earthly gifts1--,genius and ,beauty4 ,no wonder that the friendship of these two ripened into a higher love than that which served a theme for the idle gossip of the ,roman baths1 or the epicurean board of a ,sallust or a ,diomede4 ,arbaces1 the legal guardian of ,ione1 was a subtle1 crafty1 cunning ,egyptian1 whose conscience was solely of the intellect awed by no moral laws4 ,his great wealth and learning1 and his reputation as a magician gave him great power and influence over not only the superstitious worshipers1 but also the priesthood of ,isis4 ,shrouding the deceit and vices of a heathen metaphysical philosophy in a brilliant and imposing ceremonial1 ,arbaces was the better able to gratify his own desires and work out his diabolical scheme4 ,as ,ione just ripened into beautiful womanhood1 ,arbaces determined to claim her life and her love for himself alone2 but his first overture not only met with rebuff1 but revealed the fact that she already loved ,glaucus4 ,angered by a fate which not even his dark sorcery could remove1 and which the prophecy of the stars had foretold1 he is further enraged by the violent opposition of ,apaecides1 the brother of ,ione1 who on his own account threatens and has prepared to expose the lewd deceits and hypocrisy of the worship of ,isis4 ,arbaces murders ,apaecides1 imprisons the priest ,calenus1 the only witness of the deed1 and with great cunning weaves a convicting net of circumstantial evidence around ,glaucus1 his hated rival4 ,glaucus is tried1 convicted and doomed to be thrown to the lion4 ,the day of the sports of the amphitheater had come4 ,the gladiatorial fights and other games were completed4 ,bring forth the lion and ,glaucus the ,athenian1 said the editor4 ,glaucus had been placed in that gloomy and narrow cell in which the criminals of the arena awaited their last and fearful struggle4 ,the door swung gratingly back--the gleam of spears shot along the walls4 ,glaucus the ,athenian1 thy time has come1 said a loud and clear voice4 ,the lion awaits thee4 ,i am ready1 said the ,athenian4 ,worthy officer1 ,i attend you4 ,when he came into the air its breath1 which1 though sunless1 was hot and arid1 smote witheringly upon him4 ,they anointed his body1 placed the stylus in his hand1 and led him into the arena4 ,and now when the ,greek saw the eyes of thousands and tens of thousands upon him1 he no longer felt that he was mortal4 ,all evidence of fear--all fear itself--was gone4 ,a red and haughty flush spread over the paleness of his features--he towered aloft to the fullness of his glorious stature4 ,in the elastic beauty of his limbs and form1 in his intent but unfrowning brow1 in the high disdain1 and in the indomitable soul1 which breathed visibly1 which spoke audibly1 from his attitude1 his lip1 his eye1 he assumed the very incarnation1 vivid and corporeal1 of the valor of his land--of the divinity of its worship--at once a hero and a god4 ,the murmur of hatred and horror at his crime1 which had greeted his entrance1 died into the stillness of involuntary admiration and half-compassionate respect2 and with a quick and convulsive sigh1 that seemed to move the whole mass of life as if it were one body1 the gaze of the spectators turned from the ,athenian to a dark uncouth object in the center of the arena4 ,it was the grated den of the lion4 ,kept without food for twenty-four hours1 the animal had1 during the whole morning1 testified a singular and restless uneasiness1 which the keeper had attributed to the pangs of hunger4 ,yet its bearing seemed rather that of fear than of rage2 its roar was painful and distressed2 it hung its head--snuffed the air through the bars--then lay down--started again--and again uttered its wild and far-reaching cries4 ,the editor's lip quivered1 and his cheek grew pale2 he looked anxiously around--hesitated--delayed2 the crowd became impatient4 ,slowly he gave the sign2 the keeper1 who was behind the den1 cautiously removed the grating1 and the lion leaped forth with a mighty and glad roar of release4 ,the keeper retreated hastily through the grated passage leading from the arena1 and left the lord of the forest--and his prey4 ,glaucus had bent his limbs so as to give himself the firmest posture at the expected rush of the lion1 with his small and shining weapon raised high1 in the faint hope that one well directed thrust might penetrate through the eye to the brain of his grim foe4 ,at the first moment of its release the lion halted in the arena1 raised itself half on end1 snuffing the upward air with impatient sighs2 then suddenly sprang forward1 but not on the ,athenian4 ,at half speed it circled around and around the arena2 once or twice it endeavored to leap up the parapet that separated it from the audience4 ,at length1 as if tired of attempting to escape1 it crept with a moan into its cage1 and once more laid itself down to rest4 ,the first surprise of the assembly at the apathy of the lion soon grew into resentment at its cowardice2 and the populace already merged their pity for the fate of ,glaucus into angry compassion for their own disappointment4 ,the editor called the keeper4 ,how is this8 ,take the goad1 prick him forth1 and then close the door of the den4 ,as the keeper1 with some fear1 but more astonishment1 was preparing to obey1 a loud cry was heard at one of the entrances of the arena2 there was a confusion--a bustle--voices of remonstrance suddenly breaking forth1 and suddenly silenced at the reply4 ,all eyes turned in wonder at the interruption1 toward the quarter of disturbance2 the crowd gave way1 and suddenly ,sallust appeared on the senatorial benches1 his hair disheveled1--breathless--half exhausted4 ,he cast his eyes hastily round the ring4 ,remove the ,athenian1 he cried4 ,haste1--he is innocent4 ,arrest ,arbaces the ,egyptian4 ,he is the murderer of ,apaecides4 ,art thou mad1 ,o ,sallust8 said the praetor1 rising from his seat4 ,what means this raving8 ,remove the ,athenian4 ,quick6 or his blood be on your head4 ,praetor1 delay and you answer with your own life to the ,emperor4 ,i bring with me the eye-witness to the death of ,apaecides4 ,room there--stand back--give way4 ,people of ,pompeii1 fix every eye on ,arbaces--there he sits4 ,room there for the priest ,calenus4 ,the priest ,calenus1--,calenus1 cried the mob4 ,is it he8 ,it is the priest ,calenus1 said the praetor4 ,what hast thou to say8 ,arbaces of ,egypt is the murderer of ,apaecides1 the priest of ,isis2 these eyes saw him deal the blow4 ,it is from the dungeon into which he plunged me--it is from the darkness and horror of a death by famine--that the gods have raised me to proclaim his crime4 ,release the ,athenian--he is innocent4 ,a miracle--a miracle1 shouted the people4 ,remove the ,athenian4 ,arbaces to the lion6 ,officers1 remove the accused ,glaucus--remove1 but guard him yet1 said the praetor4 ,calenus1 priest of ,isis1 thou accusest ,arbaces of the murder of ,apaecides8 ,i do4 ,thou didst behold the deed8 ,praetor--with these eyes-- ,enough at present--the details must be reserved for more suiting time and place4 ,ho6 guards--remove ,arbaces--guard ,calenus6 ,sallust1 we hold you responsible for your accusation4 ,let the sports be resumed4 ,to the lion with the ,egyptian6 cried the people4 ,with that cry up sprang--on moved--thousands upon thousands6 ,they rushed from the heights--they poured down in the direction of the ,egyptian4 ,in vain did the aedile command--in vain did the praetor lift his voice and proclaim the law4 ,the people had been already rendered savage4 ,arbaces stretched his hand on high2 over his lofty brow and royal features there came an expression of unutterable solemnity and command4 ,behold6 he shouted with a voice which stilled the roar of the crowd2 behold the gods protect the guiltless6 ,the fires of the avenging ,orcus burst forth against the false witness of my accusers6 ,the eyes of the crowd followed the gesture of the ,egyptian1 and beheld1 with ineffable dismay1 a vast vapor shooting from the summit of ,vesuvius1 in the form of a gigantic pine tree2 the trunk1 blackness1--the branches1 fire1--a fire that shifted and wavered in its hues with every moment1 now fiercely luminous1 now of a dull and dying red1 that again blazed terrifically forth with intolerable glare4 ,there was a dead heart-sunken silence4 ,then there arose on high the universal shrieks of women2 the men stared at each other1 but were dumb4 ,at that moment they felt the earth shake beneath their feet2 the walls of the theater trembled2 and beyond in the distance1 they heard the crash of falling roofs2 an instant more and the mountain-cloud seemed to roll towards them1 dark and rapid1 like a torrent2 at the same time1 it cast forth from its bosom a shower of ashes mixed with vast fragments of burning stone6 ,over the crushing vines1--over the desolate streets1--over the amphitheater itself1--far and wide1--with many a mighty splash in that agitated sea1--fell that awful shower6 ,the crowd turned to fly--each dashing1 pressing1 crushing1 against the other4 ,trampling recklessly over the fallen--amidst groans1 and oaths1 and prayers1 and sudden shrieks1 the enormous crowd vomited itself forth through the numerous passages2 prisoner1 gladiator and wild beast now alike freed from their confines4 ,glaucus paced swiftly up the perilous and fearful streets1 having learned that ,ione was yet in the house of ,arbaces4 ,thither he fled to release--to save her6 ,even as he passed1 however1 the darkness that covered the heavens increased so rapidly1 that it was with difficulty he could guide his steps4 ,he ascended to the upper rooms--breathless he paced along1 shouting out aloud the name of ,ione2 and at length he heard1 at the end of a gallery1 a voice--her voice1 in wondering reply6 ,he rescued her and they made their way to the sea1 boarded a vessel and were saved from the wrath of ,vesuvius4 ,arbaces returned to his house to seek his wealth and ,ione ere he fled from the doomed ,pompeii4 ,he found them not2 all was lost to him4 ,in the madness of despair he rushed forth and hurried along the street he knew not whither2 exhausted or lost he halted at the east end of the ,forum4 ,high behind him rose a tall column that supported the bronze statue of ,augustus2 and the imperial image seemed changed to a shape of fire4 ,he advanced one step--it was his last on earth6 ,the ground shook beneath him with a convulsion that cast all around upon its surface4 ,a simultaneous crash resounded through the city1 as down toppled many a roof and pillar6--,the lightning1 as if caught by the metal1 lingered an instant on the ,imperial ,statue--then shivered bronze and column6 ,down fell the ruin1 echoing along the street1 crushing ,arbaces and riving the solid pavement where it crashed6 ,the prophecy of the stars was fulfilled6 ,so perished the wise ,magician--the great ,arbaces--the ,hermes of the ,burning ,belt--the last of the royalty of ,egypt4 ,,footnote3 #d ,an adaptation by ,r4 ,i4 ,fulton from the ,last ,days of ,pompeii4 ,,dora ,,alfred ,,lord ,,tennyson ,with farmer ,allan at the farm abode ,william and ,dora4 ,william was his son1 ,and she his niece4 ,he often look'd at them1 ,and often thought1 ,i'll make them man and wife4 ,now ,dora felt her uncle's will in all1 ,and yearn'd toward ,william2 but the youth1 because ,he had been always with her in the house1 ,thought not of ,dora4 ,then there came a day ,when ,allan call'd his son1 and said1 ,my son1 ,i married late1 but ,i would wish to see ,my grandchild on my knees before ,i die2 ,and ,i have set my heart upon a match4 ,now therefore look to ,dora2 she is well ,to look to2 thrifty too beyond her age4 ,she is my brother's daughter2 he and ,i ,had once hard words1 and parted1 and he died ,in foreign lands2 but for his sake ,i bred ,his daughter ,dora4 ,take her for your wife2 ,for ,i have wish'd this marriage1 night and day1 ,for many years4 ,but ,william answer'd short2 ,i cannot marry ,dora2 by my life1 ,i will not marry ,dora4 ,then the old man ,was wroth1 and doubled up his hands1 and said1 ,you will not1 boy6 you dare to answer thus6 ,but in my time a father's word was law1 ,and so it shall be now for me4 ,look to it2 ,consider1 ,william1 take a month to think1 ,and let me have an answer to my wish2 ,or1 by the ,lord that made me1 you shall pack1 ,and never more darken my doors again4 ,but ,william answer'd madly2 bit his lips1 ,and broke away4 ,the more he look'd at her ,the less he liked her2 and his ways were harsh2 ,but ,dora bore them meekly4 ,then before ,the month was out he left his father's house1 ,and hired himself to work within the fields2 ,and half in love1 half spite1 he woo'd and wed ,a laborer's daughter1 ,mary ,morrison4 ,then1 when the bells were ringing1 ,allan call'd ,his niece and said1 ,my girl1 ,i love you well2 ,but if you speak with him that was my son1 ,or change a word with her he calls his wife1 ,my home is none of yours4 ,my will is law4 ,and ,dora promised1 being meek4 ,she thought1 ,it cannot be1 my uncle's mind will change6 ,and days went on1 and there was born a boy ,to ,william2 then distresses came on him2 ,and day by day he pass'd his father's gate1 ,heart-broken1 and his father help'd him not4 ,but ,dora stored what little she could save1 ,and sent it them by stealth1 nor did they know ,who sent it2 till at last a fever seized ,on ,william1 and in harvest time he died4 ,then ,dora went to ,mary4 ,mary sat ,and look'd with tears upon her boy1 and thought ,hard things of ,dora4 ,dora came and said1 ,i have obey'd my uncle until now1 ,and ,i have sinn'd1 for it was all thro' me ,this evil came on ,william at the first4 ,but1 ,mary1 for the sake of him that's gone1 ,and for your sake1 the woman that he chose1 ,and for this orphan1 ,i am come to you4 ,you know there has not been for these five years ,so full a harvest2 let me take the boy1 ,and ,i will set him in my uncle's eye ,among the wheat2 that when his heart is glad ,of the full harvest1 he may see the boy1 ,and bless him for the sake of him that's gone4 ,and ,dora took the child1 and went her way ,across the wheat1 and sat upon a mound ,that was unsown1 where many poppies grew4 ,far off the farmer came into the field ,and spied her not2 for none of all his men ,dare tell him ,dora waited with the child2 ,and ,dora would have risen and gone to him1 ,but her heart fail'd her2 and the reapers reap'd1 ,and the sun fell1 and all the land was dark4 ,but when the morrow came1 she rose and took ,the child once more1 and sat upon the mound2 ,and made a little wreath of all the flowers ,that grew about1 and tied it round his hat ,to make him pleasing in her uncle's eye4 ,then when the farmer pass'd into the field ,he spied her1 and he left his men at work1 ,and came and said1 ,where were you yesterday8 ,whose child is that8 ,what are you doing here8 ,so ,dora cast her eyes upon the ground1 ,and answer'd softly1 ,this is ,william's child6 ,and did ,i not1 said ,allan1 did ,i not ,forbid you1 ,dora8 ,dora said again1 ,do with me as you will1 but take the child1 ,and bless him for the sake of him that's gone6 ,and ,allan said1 ,i see it is a trick ,got up betwixt you and the woman there4 ,i must be taught my duty1 and by you6 ,you knew my word was law1 and yet you dared ,to slight it4 ,well--for ,i will take the boy1 ,but go you hence1 and never see me more4 ,so saying1 he took the boy that cried aloud ,and struggled hard4 ,the wreath of flowers fell ,at ,dora's1 feet4 ,she bow'd upon her hands1 ,and the boy's cry came to her from the field1 ,more and more distant4 ,she bow'd down her head1 ,remembering the day when first she came1 ,and all the things that had been4 ,she bow'd down ,and wept in secret2 and the reapers reap'd1 ,and the sun fell1 and all the land was dark4 ,then ,dora went to ,mary's house1 and stood ,upon the threshold4 ,mary saw the boy ,was not with ,dora4 ,she broke out in praise ,to ,god1 that help'd her in her widowhood4 ,and ,dora said1 ,my uncle took the boy2 ,but1 ,mary1 let me live and work with you3 ,he says that he will never see me more4 ,then answer'd ,mary1 ,this shall never be1 ,that thou shouldst take my trouble on thyself3 ,and1 now ,i think1 he shall not have the boy1 ,for he will teach him hardness1 and to slight ,his mother2 therefore thou and ,i will go1 ,and ,i will have my boy1 and bring him home2 ,and ,i will beg of him to take thee back2 ,but if he will not take thee back again1 ,then thou and ,i will live within one house1 ,and work for ,william's child1 until he grows ,of age to help us4 ,so the women kiss'd ,each other1 and set out1 and reach'd the farm4 ,the door was off the latch4 ,they peep'd1 and saw ,the boy set up betwixt his grandsire's knees1 ,who thrust him in the hollows of his arm1 ,and clapt him on the hands and on the cheeks1 ,like one that loved him2 and the lad stretch'd out ,and babbled for the golden seal1 that hung ,from ,allan's watch1 and sparkled by the fire4 ,then they came in2 but when the boy beheld ,his mother1 he cried out to come to her1 ,and ,allan set him down1 and ,mary said1 ,o ,father6--if you let me call you so-- ,i never came a-begging for myself1 ,or ,william1 or this child2 but now ,i come ,for ,dora4 ,take her back1 she loves you well4 ,o ,sir1 when ,william died1 he died at peace ,with all men2 for ,i ask'd him1 and he said1 ,he could not ever rue his marrying me-- ,i had been a patient wife2 but1 ,sir1 he said ,that he was wrong to cross his father thus1 ',god bless him6' he said1 'and may he never know ,the troubles ,i have gone thro6' ,then he turn'd ,his face and pass'd--unhappy that ,i am6 ,but now1 ,sir1 let me have my boy1 for you ,will make him hard1 and he will learn to slight ,his father's memory2 and take ,dora back1 ,and let all this be as it was before4 ,so ,mary said1 and ,dora hid her face ,by ,mary4 ,there was silence in the room2 ,and all at once the old man burst in sobs3-- ,i have been to blame--to blame4 ,i have kill'd my son4 ,i have kill'd him--but ,i loved him--my dear son4 ,may ,god forgive me6--,i have been to blame4 ,kiss me1 my children4 ,then they clung about ,the old man's neck1 and kiss'd him many times4 ,and all the man was broken with remorse2 ,and all his love came back a hundred-fold2 ,and for three hours he sobb'd o'er ,william's child ,thinking of ,william4 ,so those four abode ,within one house together2 and as years ,went forward1 ,mary took another mate2 ,but ,dora lived unmarried till her death4 ,,an ,,easter ,,with ,,parepa ,,myra ,s4 ,,delano ,when ,parepa was here she was everywhere the people's idol4 ,the great opera houses in all our cities and towns were thronged4 ,there were none to criticise or carp4 ,her young1 rich1 grand voice was beyond compare4 ,its glorious tones are remembered with an enthusiasm like that which greeted her when she sung4 ,her company played in ,new ,york during the ,easter holidays1 and ,i1 as an old friend1 claimed some of her leisure hours4 ,we were friends in ,italy1 and this ,easter day was to be spent with me4 ,at eleven in the morning she sang at one of the large churches2 ,i waited for her1 and at last we two were alone in my snug little room4 ,at noon the sky was overcast and gray4 ,down came the snow1 whitening the streets and roofs4 ,the wind swept icy breaths from the water as it came up from the bay and rushed past the city spires and over tall buildings1 whirling around us the snow and storm4 ,we had hurried home1 shut and fastened our blinds1 drawn close the curtains1 and piled coal higher on the glowing grate4 ,we had taken off our wraps1 and now sat close to the cheery fire for a whole afternoon's blessed enjoyment4 ,parepa said1 ,mary1 this is perfect rest6 ,we shall be quite alone for four hours4 ,yes1 four long hours6 ,i replied4 ,no rehearsals1 no engagements4 ,nobody knows where you are6 ,parepa laughed merrily at this idea4 ,dinner shall be served in this room1 and ,i won't allow even the servant to look at you6 ,i said4 ,she clasped her dimpled hands together1 like a child in enjoyment1 and then sprang up to roll the little center-table near the grate4 ,the snow had now turned into sleet2 a great chill fell over the whole city4 ,we looked out of our windows1 peeping through the shutters1 and pitying the people as they rushed past4 ,a sharp rap on my door4 ,john thrust in a note4 ,,my ,,dear ,,friend3--,can you come8 ,annie has gone4 ,she said you would be sure to come to her funeral4 ,she spoke of you to the last4 ,she will be buried at four4 ,i laid the poor little blotted note in ,parepa's hand4 ,how it stormed6 ,we looked into each other's faces helplessly4 ,i said1 ,dear1 ,i must go1 but you sit by the fire and rest4 ,i'll be at home in two hours4 ,and poor ,annie has gone6 ,tell me about it1 ,mary1 for ,i am going with you1 she answered4 ,she threw on her heavy cloak1 wound her long white woolen scarf closely about her throat1 drew on her woolen gloves1 and we set out together in the wild ,easter storm4 ,annie's mother was a dressmaker1 and sewed for me and my friends4 ,she was left a widow when her one little girl was five years old4 ,her husband was drowned off the ,jersey coast1 and out of blinding pain and loss and anguish had grown a sort of idolatry for the delicate1 beautiful child whose brown eyes looked like the young husband's4 ,for fifteen years this mother had loved and worked for ,annie1 her whole being going out to bless her one child4 ,i had grown fond of them2 and in small ways1 with books and flowers1 outings and simple pleasures1 ,i had made myself dear to them4 ,the end of the delicate girl's life had not seemed so near1 though her doom had been hovering about her for years4 ,i had thought it all over as ,i took the ,easter lilies from my window-shelf and wrapped them in thick papers and hid them out of the storm under my cloak4 ,i knew there would be no other flowers in their wretched room4 ,how endless was the way to this ,east-,side tenement house6 ,no elevated roads1 no rapid transit across the great city then as there are now4 ,at last we reached the place4 ,on the street stood the canvas-covered hearse1 known only to the poor4 ,we climbed flight after flight of narrow dark stairs to the small upper rooms4 ,in the middle of the floor stood a stained coffin1 lined with stiff1 rattling cambric and cheap gauze1 resting on uncovered trestles of wood4 ,we each took the mother's hand and stood a moment with her1 silent4 ,all hope had gone out of her face4 ,she shed no tears1 but as ,i held her cold hand ,i felt a shudder go over her1 but she neither spoke nor sobbed4 ,the driving storm had made us late1 and the plain1 hard-working people sat stiffly against the walls4 ,some one gave us chairs and we sat close to the mother4 ,the minister came in1 a blunt1 hard-looking man1 self-sufficient and formal4 ,a woman said the undertaker brought him4 ,icier than the pitiless storm outside1 yes1 colder than ice were his words4 ,he read a few verses from the ,bible1 and warned the bereaved mother against rebellion at the divine decrees4 ,he made a prayer and was gone4 ,a dreadful hush fell over the small room4 ,i whispered to the mother and asked3 ,why did you wait so long to send for me8 ,all this would have been different4 ,with a kind of stare1 she looked at me4 ,i can't remember why ,i didn't send1 she said1 her hand to her head1 and added3 ,i seemed to die1 too1 and forget1 till they brought a coffin4 ,then ,i knew it all4 ,the undertaker came and bustled about4 ,he looked at myself and ,parepa1 as if to say3 ,it's time to go4 ,the wretched funeral service was over4 ,without a word ,parepa rose and walked to the head of the coffin4 ,she laid her white scarf on an empty chair1 threw her cloak back from her shoulders1 where it fell in long1 soft1 black lines from her noble figure like the drapery of mourning4 ,she laid her soft1 fair hand on the cold forehead1 passed it tenderly over the wasted delicate face1 looked down at the dead girl a moment1 and moved my ,easter lilies from the stained box to the thin fingers1 then lifted up her head1 and with illumined eyes sang the glorious melody3 ,angels1 ever bright and fair1 ,take1 oh6 take her to thy care4 ,her magnificent voice rose and fell in all its richness and power and pity and beauty6 ,she looked above the dingy room and the tired faces of men and women1 the hard hands and the struggling hearts4 ,she threw back her head and sang till the choirs of paradise must have paused to listen to the ,easter music of that day4 ,she passed her hand caressingly over the girl's soft dark hair1 and sang on--and on--,take--oh6 take her to thy care6 ,the mother's face grew rapt and white4 ,i held her hands and watched her eyes4 ,suddenly she threw my hand off and knelt at ,parepa's feet1 close to the wooden trestles4 ,she locked her fingers together1 tears and sobs breaking forth4 ,she prayed aloud that ,god would bless the angel singing for ,annie4 ,a patient smile settled about her lips1 the light came back into her poor1 dulled eyes1 and she kissed her daughter's face with a love beyond all interpretation or human speech4 ,i led her back to her seat as the last glorious notes of ,parepa's voice rose triumphant over all earthly pain and sorrow4 ,and ,i thought that no queen ever went to her grave with a greater ceremony than this young daughter of poverty and toil1 committed to the care of the angels4 ,that same night thousands listened to ,parepa's matchless voice4 ,applause rose to the skies1 and ,parepa's own face was gloriously swept with emotion4 ,i joined in the enthusiasm1 but above the glitter and shimmering of jewels and dress1 and the heavy odors of ,easter flowers1 the sea of smiling faces1 and the murmur of voices1 ,i could only behold by the dim light of a tenement window the singer's uplifted face1 the wondering countenance of the poor on-lookers1 and the mother's wide1 startled1 tearful eyes2 ,i could only hear above the sleet on the roof and the storm outside ,parepa's voice singing up to heaven3 ,take1 oh6 take her to thy care6 ,,those ,,evening ,,bells ,,thomas ,,moore ,those evening bells6 those evening bells6 ,how many a tale their music tells ,of youth1 and home1 and that sweet time ,when last ,i heard their soothing chime4 ,those joyous hours are passed away2 ,and many a heart that then was gay ,within the tomb now darkly dwells1 ,and hears no more those evening bells4 ,and so 'twill be when ,i am gone2 ,that tuneful peal will still ring on1 ,while other bards shall walk these dells1 ,and sing your praise1 sweet evening bells4 ,,ginevra ,,susan ,,coolidge ,so it is come6 ,the doctor's glossy smile ,deceives me not4 ,i saw him shake his head1 ,whispering1 and heard poor ,giulia sob without1 ,as1 slowly creeping1 he went down the stair4 ,were they afraid that ,i should be afraid8 ,i1 who have died once and been laid in tomb8 ,they need not4 ,little one1 look not so pale4 ,i am not raving4 ,ah6 you never heard ,the story4 ,climb up there upon the bed3 ,sit close and listen4 ,after this one day ,i shall not tell you stories any more4 ,how old are you1 my rose8 ,what6 almost twelve8 ,almost a woman6 scarcely more than that ,was your fair mother when she bore her bud2 ,and scarcely more was ,i when1 long years since1 ,i left my father's house1 a bride in ,may4 ,you know the house1 beside ,st4 ,andrea's church1 ,gloomy and rich1 which stands and seems to frown ,on the ,mercato1 humming at its base4 ,that was my play-place ever as a child2 ,and with me used to play a kinsman's son1 ,antonio ,rondinelli4 ,ah1 dear days6 ,two happy things we were1 with none to chide1 ,or hint that life was anything but play4 ,sudden the play-time ended4 ,all at once ,you must wed1 they told me4 ,what is wed8 ,i asked2 but with the word ,i bent my brow1 ,let them put on the garland1 smiled to see ,the glancing jewels tied about my neck2 ,and so1 half-pleased1 half-puzzled1 was led forth ,by my grave husband1 older than my sire4 ,o the long years that followed6 ,it would seem ,that the sun never shone in all those years1 ,or only with a sudden1 troubled glint ,flashed on ,antonio's curls1 as he went by ,doffing his cap1 with eyes of wistful love ,raised to my face--my conscious1 woeful face4 ,were we so much to blame8 ,our lives had twined ,together1 none forbidding1 for so long4 ,they let our childish fingers drop the seed1 ,unhindered1 which should ripen to tall grain2 ,they let the firm1 small roots tangle and grow1 ,then rent them1 careless that it hurt the plant4 ,i loved ,antonio1 and he loved me4 ,life was all shadow1 but it was not sin6 ,i loved ,antonio2 but ,i kept me pure1 ,not for my husband's sake1 but for the sake ,of him1 my first-born child1 my little child1 ,mine for a few short weeks1 whose touch1 whose look ,thrilled all my soul and thrills it to this day4 ,i loved3 but1 hear me swear1 ,i kept me pure6 ,it was hard ,to sit in darkness while the rest had light1 ,to move to discords when the rest had song1 ,to be so young and never to have lived4 ,i bore1 as women bear1 until one day ,soul said to flesh1 ,this ,i endure no more1 ,and with the word uprose1 tore clay apart1 ,and what was blank before grew blanker still4 ,it was a fever1 so the leeches said4 ,i had been dead so long1 ,i did not know ,the difference or heed4 ,oil on my breast1 ,the garments of the grave about me wrapped1 ,they bore me forth and laid me in the tomb4 ,open the curtain1 child4 ,yes1 it is night4 ,it was night then1 when ,i awoke to feel ,that deadly chill1 and see by ghostly gleams ,of moonlight1 creeping through the grated door1 ,the coffins of my fathers all about4 ,strange1 hollow clamors rang and echoed back1 ,as1 struggling out of mine1 ,i dropped and fell4 ,with frantic strength ,i beat upon the grate2 ,it yielded to my touch4 ,some careless hand ,had left the bolt half-slipped4 ,my father swore ,afterward1 with a curse1 he would make sure ,next time4 ,next time6 ,that hurts me even now6 ,dead or alive ,i issued1 scarce sure which1 ,and down the darkling street ,i wildly fled1 ,led by a little1 cold1 and wandering moon1 ,which seemed as lonely and as lost as ,i4 ,i had no aim1 save to reach warmth and light ,and human touch2 but still my witless steps ,led to my husband's door1 and there ,i stopped1 ,by instinct1 knocked1 and called4 ,a window oped4 ,a voice--'twas his--demanded3 ,who is there8 ',tis ,i1 ,ginevra4 ,then ,i heard the tone ,change into horror1 and he prayed aloud ,and called upon the saints1 the while ,i urged1 ,o1 let me in1 ,francesco2 let me in6 ,i am so cold1 so frightened1 let me in6 ,then with a crash1 the window was shut fast3 ,and1 though ,i cried and beat upon the door ,and wailed aloud1 no other answer came4 ,weeping1 ,i turned away1 and feebly strove ,down the hard distance toward my father's house4 ,they will have pity and will let me in1 ,i thought4 ,they loved me and will let me in4 ,cowards6 ,at the high window overhead ,they stood and trembled1 while ,i plead and prayed4 ,i am your child1 ,ginevra4 ,let me in6 ,i am not dead4 ,in mercy1 let me in6 ,the holy saints forbid6 declared my sire4 ,my mother sobbed and vowed whole pounds of wax ,to ,st4 ,eustachio1 would he but remove ,this fearful presence from her door4 ,then sharp ,came click of lock1 and a long tube was thrust ,from out the window1 and my brother cried1 ,spirit or devil1 go6 or else ,i fire6 ,where should ,i go8 ,back to the ghastly tomb ,and the cold coffined ones6 ,up the long street1 ,wringing my hands and sobbing low1 ,i went4 ,my feet were bare and bleeding from the stones2 ,my hands were bleeding too2 my hair hung loose ,over my shroud4 ,so wild and strange a shape ,saw never ,florence since4 ,at last ,i saw a flickering point of light ,high overhead1 in a dim window set4 ,i had lain down to die3 but at the sight ,i rose1 crawled on1 and with expiring strength ,knocked1 sank again1 and knew not even then ,it was ,antonio's door by which ,i lay4 ,a window opened1 and a voice called out3 ,qui e8 ,i am ,ginevra4 ,and ,i thought1 ,now he will fall to trembling1 like the rest1 ,and bid me hence4 ,but1 lo1 a moment more ,the bolts were drawn1 and arms whose very touch ,was life1 lifted and clasped and bore me in4 ,o ghost or angel of my buried love1 ,i know not1 ,i care not which1 be welcome here6 ,welcome1 thrice welcome1 to this heart of mine6 ,i heard him say1 and then ,i heard no more4 ,it was high noontide when ,i woke again1 ,to hear fierce voices wrangling by my bed-- ,my father's and my husband's2 for1 with dawn1 ,gathering up valor1 they had sought the tomb1 ,had found me gone1 and tracked my bleeding feet1 ,over the pavement to ,antonio's door4 ,dead1 they cared nothing2 living1 ,i was theirs4 ,hot raged the quarrel3 then came ,justice in1 ,and to the court we swept--,i in my shroud-- ,to try the cause4 ,this was the verdict given3 ,a woman who has been to burial borne1 ,made fast and left and locked in with the dead2 ,who at her husband's door has stood and plead ,for entrance1 and has heard her prayer denied2 ,who from her father's house is urged and chased1 ,must be adjudged as dead in law and fact4 ,the ,court pronounces the defendant--dead6 ,she can resume her former ties at will1 ,or may renounce them1 if such be her will4 ,she is no more a daughter or a spouse1 ,unless she choose1 and is set free to form ,new ties if so she choose4 ,o1 blessed words6 ,that very day we knelt before the priest1 ,my love and ,i1 were wed1 and life began4 ,child of my child1 child of ,antonio's child1 ,bend down and let me kiss your wondering face4 ',tis a strange tale to tell a rose like you4 ,but time is brief1 and1 had ,i told you not1 ,haply the story would have met your ears ,from them1 the ,amieris4 ,now go1 my dearest4 ,when they wake thee up1 ,to tell thee ,i am dead1 be not too sad4 ,i who have died once1 do not fear to die4 ,sweet was that waking1 sweeter will be this4 ,close to ,heaven's gate my own ,antonio sits ,waiting1 and1 spite of all the ,frati say1 ,i know ,i shall not stand long at that gate1 ,or knock and be refused an entrance there1 ,for he will start up when he hears my voice1 ,the saints will smile1 and he will open quick4 ,only a night to part me from that joy4 ,jesu ,maria6 let the dawning come6 ,,the ,,high ,,tide ,,at ,,lincolnshire ,,jean ,,ingelow ,the old mayor climbed the belfry tower1 ,the ringers rang by two1 by three2 ,pull1 if ye never pulled before2 ,good ringers1 pull your best1 quoth he4 ,play uppe1 play uppe1 ,o ,boston bells6 ,ply all your changes1 all your swells1 ,play uppe1 ',the ,brides of ,enderby4' ,men say it was a stolen tyde-- ,the ,lord that sent it1 ,he knows all2 ,but in myne ears doth still abide ,the message that the bells let fall3 ,and there was naught of strange1 beside ,the flight of mews and peewits pied ,by millions crouched on the old sea-wall4 ,i sat and spun within the doore1 ,my thread brake off1 ,i raised myne eyes2 ,the level sun1 like ruddy ore1 ,lay sinking in the barren skies1 ,and dark against day's golden death ,she moved where ,lindis wandereth1 ,my sonne's faire wife1 ,elizabeth4 ,cusha6 ,cusha6 ,cusha6 calling ,ere the early dews were falling1 ,farre away ,i heard her song4 ,cusha6 ,cusha6 all along2 ,where the reedy ,lindis floweth1 ,floweth1 floweth1 ,from the meads where melick groweth1 ,faintly came her milking song4 ,alle fresh the level pasture lay1 ,and not a shadowe mote be seene1 ,save where full fyve good miles away ,the steeple towered from out the greene2 ,and lo6 the great bell farre and wide ,was heard in all the country side ,that ,saturday at eventide4 ,i looked without1 and lo6 my sonne ,came riding down with might and main3 ,he raised a shout as he drew on1 ,till all the welkin rang again1 ,elizabeth6 ,elizabeth6 7,a sweeter woman ne'er drew breath ,than my sonne's wife1 ,elizabeth47 ,the old sea wall 7he cried7 is downe1 ,the rising tide comes on apace1 ,and boats adrift in yonder towne ,go sailing uppe the market-place4 ,he shook as one that looks on death3 ,god save you1 mother6 straight he saith1 ,where is my wife1 ,elizabeth8 ,good sonne1 where ,lindis winds away1 ,with her two bairns ,i marked her long2 ,and ere yon bells beganne to play ,afar ,i heard her milking song4 ,he looked across the grassy lea1 ,to right1 to left1 ,ho ,enderby6 ,they rang ,the ,brides of ,enderby6 ,with that he cried and beat his breast2 ,for1 lo6 along the river's bed ,a mighty eygre reared his crest1 ,and uppe the ,lindis raging sped4 ,it swept with thunderous noises loud2 ,shaped like a curling snow-white cloud1 ,or like a demon in a shroud4 ,so farre1 so fast the eygre drave1 ,the heart had hardly time to beat1 ,before a shallow1 seething wave ,sobbed in the grasses at oure feet4 ,the feet had hardly time to flee ,before it brake against the knee1 ,and all the world was in the sea4 ,upon the roofe we sat that night1 ,the noise of bells went sweeping by2 ,i marked the lofty beacon light ,stream from the church tower1 red and high-- ,a lurid mark and dread to see2 ,and awesome bells they were to me1 ,that in the dark rang ,enderby4 ,they rang the sailor lads to guide ,from roofe to roofe who fearless rowed1 ,and ,i--my sonne was at my side1 ,and yet the ruddy beacon glowed2 ,and yet he moaned beneath his breath1 ,o come in life1 or come in death6 ,o lost6 my love1 ,elizabeth4 ,and didst thou visit him no more8 ,thou didst1 thou didst1 my daughter deare2 ,the waters laid thee at his doore1 ,ere yet the early dawn was clear1 ,thy pretty bairns in fast embrace1 ,the lifted sun shone on thy face1 ,downe drifted to thy dwelling-place4 ,that flow strewed wrecks about the grass1 ,that ebbe swept out the flocks to sea2 ,a fatal ebbe and flow1 alas6 ,to manye more than myne and me3 ,but each will mourn his own 7she saith71 ,and sweeter woman ne'er drew breath ,than my sonne's wife1 ,elizabeth4 ,i shall never hear her more ,by the reedy ,lindis shore1 ,cusha6 ,cusha6 ,cusha6 calling1 ,ere the early dews be falling2 ,i shall never hear her song1 ,cusha6 ,cusha6 all along ,where the sunny ,lindis floweth1 ,goeth1 floweth2 ,from the meads where melick groweth1 ,when the water winding down1 ,onward floweth to the town4 ,i shall never see her more ,where the reeds and rushes quiver1 ,shiver1 quiver2 ,stand beside the sobbing river1 ,sobbing1 throbbing1 in its falling ,to the sandy lonesome shore2 ,i shall never hear her calling1 ,leave your meadow grasses mellow1 ,mellow1 mellow2 ,quit your cowslips1 cowslips yellow2 ,come uppe ,whitefoot1 come uppe ,lightfoot2 ,quit your pipes of parsley hollow1 ,hollow1 hollow2 ,come uppe ,lightfoot1 rise and follow2 ,lightfoot1 ,whitefoot1 ,from your clovers lift the head2 ,come uppe ,jetty1 follow1 follow1 ,jetty1 to the milking-shed4 ,,how ,,did ,,you ,,die8#e ,,edmund ,,vance ,,cooke ,did you tackle that trouble that came your way ,with a resolute heart and cheerful1 ,or hide your face from the light of day ,with a craven soul and fearful8 ,oh1 a trouble is a ton1 or a trouble is an ounce1 ,or a trouble is what you make it1 ,and it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts1 ,but only--how did you take it8 ,you are beaten to earth8 ,well1 well1 what's that8 ,come up with a smiling face4 ,it's nothing against you to fall down flat1 ,but to lie there--that's disgrace4 ,the harder you're thrown1 why1 the higher you bounce2 ,be proud of your blackened eye6 ,it isn't the fact that you're licked that counts2 ,it's how did you fight--and why8 ,and though you be done to the death1 what then8 ,if you battled the best you could1 ,if you played your part in the world of men1 ,why ,the ,critic will call it good4 ,death comes with a crawl1 or comes with a pounce1 ,and whether he's slow1 or spry1 ,it isn't the fact that you're dead that counts1 ,but only--how did you die8 ,,footnote3 #e ,by permission of ,forbes ,co1 publishers1 and of the author4 ,,the ,,indigo ,,bird#f ,,john ,,burroughs ,oh1 late to come but long to sing1 ,my little finch of deep-dyed wing1 ,i welcome thee this day6 ,thou comest with the orchard bloom1 ,the azure days1 the sweet perfume ,that fills the breath of ,may4 ,a winged gem amid the trees1 ,a cheery strain upon the breeze ,from tree-top sifting down2 ,a leafy nest in covert low2 ,when daisies come and brambles blow1 ,a mate in ,quaker brown4 ,but most ,i prize1 past summer's prime1 ,when other throats have ceased to chime1 ,thy faithful tree-top strain2 ,no brilliant bursts our ears enthrall-- ,a prelude with a dying fall1 ,that soothes the summer's pain4 ,where blackcaps sweeten in the shade1 ,and clematis a bower hath made1 ,or1 in the bushy fields1 ,on breezy slopes where cattle graze1 ,at noon on dreamy ,august days1 ,thy strain its solace yields4 ,oh1 bird inured to sun and heat1 ,and steeped in summer languor sweet1 ,the tranquil days are thine4 ,the season's fret and urge are o'er1 ,its tide is loitering on the shore2 ,make thy contentment mine6 ,,footnote3 #f ,by permission of ,harper ,bros41 publishers1 and the author4 ,,the ,,jackdaw ,,of ,,rheims ,r4 ,h4 ,,barham ,the ,jackdaw sat on the ,cardinal's chair6 ,bishop and abbot and prior were there2 ,many a monk1 and many a friar1 ,many a knight1 and many a squire1 ,with a great many more of lesser degree1-- ,in sooth1 a goodly company2 ,and they served the ,lord ,primate on bended knee4 ,never1 ,i ween1 was a prouder seen1 ,read of in books1 or dreamt of in dreams1 ,than the ,cardinal ,lord ,archbishop of ,rheims6 ,in and out through the motley rout1 ,that little ,jackdaw kept hopping about3 ,here and there1 like a dog in a fair1 ,over comfits and cates1 and dishes and plates1 ,cowl and cope1 and rochet and pall1 ,miter and crosier6 he hopped upon all4 ,with a saucy air1 he perched on the chair ,where1 in state1 the great ,lord ,cardinal sat1 ,in the great ,lord ,cardinal's great red hat2 ,and he peered in the face ,of his ,lordship's ,grace1 ,with a satisfied look1 as if he would say1 ,we two are the greatest folks here to-day6 ,and the priests with awe1 as such freaks they saw1 ,said1 ,the deuce must be in that little ,jackdaw6 ,the feast was over1 the board was cleared1 ,the flawns and the custards had all disappeared1 ,and six little singing-boys--dear little souls ,in nice clean faces1 and nice white stoles-- ,came1 in order due1 two by two1 ,marching that grand refectory through6 ,a nice little boy held a golden ewer1 ,embossed and filled with water1 as pure ,as any that flows between ,rheims and ,namur1 ,which a nice little boy stood ready to catch ,in a fine golden hand-basin made to match4 ,two nice little boys1 rather more grown1 ,carried lavender-water1 and eau de ,cologne2 ,and a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap1 ,worthy of washing the hands of the ,pope4 ,one little boy more a napkin bore1 ,of the best white diaper1 fringed with pink1 ,and a ,cardinal's hat marked in permanent ink4 ,the great ,lord ,cardinal turns at the sight ,of these nice little boys dressed all in white2 ,from his finger he draws his costly turquoise3 ,and1 not thinking at all about little ,jackdaws1 ,deposits it straight by the side of his plate1 ,while the nice little boys on his ,eminence wait2 ,till when nobody's dreaming of any such thing1 ,that little ,jackdaw hops off with the ring6 ,there's a cry and a shout1 and a terrible rout1 ,and nobody seems to know what they're about1 ,but the monks have their pockets all turned inside out2 ,the friars are kneeling1 and hunting and feeling ,the carpet1 the floor1 and the walls1 and the ceiling4 ,the ,cardinal drew off each plum-colored shoe1 ,and left his red stockings exposed to the view2 ,he peeps1 and he feels in the toes and the heels2 ,they turn up the dishes1 they turn up the plates1 ,they take up the poker and poke out the grates1 ,they turn up the rugs1 they examine the mugs2 ,but1 no6 no such thing1--they can't find ,,the ,,ring6 ,the ,cardinal rose with a dignified look1 ,he called for his candle1 his bell1 and his book6 ,in holy anger and pious grief ,he solemnly cursed that rascally thief6 ,never was heard such a terrible curse6 ,but what gave rise to no little surprise1 ,nobody seemed one penny the worse6 ,the day was gone1 the night came on1 ,the monks and the friars they searched till dawn2 ,when the sacristan saw1 on crumpled claw1 ,come limping a poor little lame ,jackdaw6 ,no longer gay1 as on yesterday2 ,his feathers all seemed to be turned the wrong way2 ,his pinions drooped1 he could hardly stand1-- ,his head was as bald as the palm of your hand2 ,his eye so dim1 so wasted each limb1 ,regardless of grammar1 they all cried1 ,,that',s ,,him6 ,that's the scamp that has done this scandalous thing1 ,that's the thief that has got my ,lord ,cardinal's ring6 ,the poor little ,jackdaw1 when the monks he saw1 ,feebly gave vent to the ghost of a caw2 ,and turned his bald head as much as to say1 ,pray be so good as to walk this way6 ,slower and slower he limped on before1 ,till they came to the back of the belfry-door1 ,where the first thing they saw1 ,midst the sticks and the straw1 ,was the ,,ring1 in the nest of the little ,jackdaw6 ,then the great ,lord ,cardinal called for his book1 ,and off that terrible curse he took2 ,the mute expression served in lieu of confession1 ,and1 being thus coupled with full restitution1 ,the ,jackdaw got plenary absolution6 ,when these words were heard1 the poor little bird ,was so changed in a moment1 'twas really absurd3 ,he grew slick and fat2 in addition to that1 ,a fresh crop of feathers came thick as a mat6 ,his tail waggled more even than before2 ,but no longer it wagged with an impudent air1 ,no longer he perched on the ,cardinal's chair4 ,he hopped now about with a gait devout2 ,at matins1 at vespers1 he never was out2 ,and1 so far from any more pilfering deeds1 ,he always seemed telling the ,confessor's beads4 ,if any one lied1 or if any one swore1 ,or slumbered in prayer-time and happened to snore1 ,that good ,jackdaw would give a great ,caw6 ,as much as to say1 ,don't do so any more6 ,while many remarked1 as his manners they saw1 ,that they never had known such a pious ,jackdaw6 ,he long lived the pride of that country side1 ,and at last in the order of sanctity died3 ,when1 as words were too faint his merits to paint1 ,the ,conclave determined to make him a ,saint4 ,and on newly made ,saints and ,popes1 as you know1 ,it's the custom at ,rome new names to bestow1 ,so they canonized him by the name of ,jim ,crow6 ,,jaffar ,,leigh ,,hunt ,jaffar the ,barmecide1 the good vizier1 ,the poor man's hope1 the friend without a peer1 ,jaffar was dead1 slain by a doom unjust2 ,and guilty ,haroun1 sullen with mistrust ,of what the good1 and e'en the bad1 might say1 ,ordained that no man living1 from that day1 ,should dare to speak his name on pain of death4 ,all ,araby and ,persia held their breath2 ,all but the brave ,mondeer2 he1 proud to show ,how far for love a grateful soul could go1 ,and facing death for very scorn and grief 7,for his great heart wanted a great relief71 ,stood forth in ,bagdad1 daily1 in the square ,where once had stood a happy house1 and there ,harangued the tremblers at the scimitar ,on all they owed to the divine ,jaffar4 ,bring me this man1 the caliph cried2 the man ,was brought1 was gazed upon4 ,the mutes began ,to bind his arms4 ,welcome1 brave cords1 cried he1 ,from bonds far worse ,jaffar delivered me2 ,from wants1 from shames1 from loveliest household fears1 ,made a man's eyes friends with delicious tears2 ,restored me1 loved me1 put me on a par ,with his great self4 ,how can ,i pay ,jaffar8 ,haroun1 who felt that on a soul like this ,the mightiest vengeance could not fall amiss1 ,now deigned to smile1 as one great lord of fate ,might smile upon another half as great4 ,he said1 ,let worth grow frenzied if it will2 ,the caliph's judgment shall be master still4 ,go1 and since gifts so move thee1 take this gem1 ,the richest in the ,tartar's diadem1 ,and hold the giver as thou deemest fit6 ,gifts6 cried the friend2 he took1 and holding it ,high toward the heavens1 as though to meet his star1 ,exclaimed1 ,this1 too1 ,i owe to thee1 ,jaffar6 ,,jim ,,bludsoe#g ,,john ,,hay ,wall1 no6 ,i can't tell where he lives1 ,because he don't live1 you see2 ,leastways1 he's got out of the habit ,of livin' like you and me4 ,whar have you been for the last three years1 ,that you haven't heard folks tell ,how ,jimmy ,bludsoe passed in his checks1 ,the night of the ,prairie ,belle8 ,he warn't no saint--them engineers ,is all pretty much alike-- ,one wife in ,natchez-,under-the-,hill1 ,and another one here in ,pike4 ,a careless man in his talk was ,jim1 ,and an awkward man in a row-- ,but he never flunked1 and he never lied-- ,i reckon he never knowed how4 ,and this was all the religion he had-- ,to treat his engine well2 ,never be passed on the river2 ,to mind the pilot's bell2 ,and if ever the ,prairie ,belle took fire2 ,a thousand times he swore1 ,he'd hold her nozzle agin the bank ,till the last soul got ashore4 ,all boats has their day on the ,mississip'1 ,and her day came at last-- ,the ,movastar was a better boat1 ,but the ,belle1 she wouldn't be passed1 ,and so came a-tearin' along that night1 ,the oldest craft on the line1 ,with a nigger squat on her safety-valve1 ,and her furnaces crammed1 rosin and pine4 ,the fire burst out as she cleared the bar1 ,and burnt a hole in the night1 ,and quick as a flash she turned and made ,for that willer-bank on the right4 ,ther' was runnin' and cursin'1 but ,jim yelled out ,over all the infernal roar1 ,i'll hold her nozzle agin the bank ,till the last galoot's ashore4 ,thro' the hot black breath of the burnin' boat ,jim ,bludsoe's voice was heard1 ,and they all had trust in his cussedness1 ,and know'd he would keep his word4 ,and sure's you're born1 they all got off ,afore the smokestacks fell1 ,and ,bludsoe's ghost went up alone ,in the smoke of ,prairie ,belle4 ,he warn't no saint--but at judgment ,i'd run my chance with ,jim ,longside of some pious gentleman ,that wouldn't shook hands with him4 ,he'd seen his duty1 a dead sure thing1 ,and went fer it thar and then2 ,and ,christ ain't a-goin' to be too hard ,on a man that died for men4 ,,footnote3 #g ,by permission of ,mrs4 ,hay4 ,,king ,,robert ,,of ,,sicily#h ,,henry ,,wadsworth ,,longfellow ,robert of ,sicily1 brother of ,pope ,urbane ,and ,valmond1 ,emperor of ,allemaine1 ,appareled in magnificent attire1 ,with retinue of many a knight and squire1 ,on ,st4 ,john's eve1 at vespers1 proudly sat1 ,and heard the priests chant the ,magnificat1 ,and as he listened1 o'er and o'er again ,repeated1 like a burden or refrain1 ,he caught the words1 ,deposuit potentes ,de sede et exultavit humiles2 ,and slowly lifting up his kingly head1 ,he to the learned clerk beside him said1 ,what mean those words8 ,the clerk made answer meet1 ,he has put down the mighty from their seat1 ,and has exalted them of low degree4 ,thereat ,king ,robert muttered scornfully1 ',tis well that such seditious words are sung ,only by priests and in the ,latin tongue2 ,for unto priests and people be it known1 ,there is no power can push me from my throne6 ,and leaning back1 he yawned and fell asleep1 ,lulled by the chant1 monotonous and deep4 ,when he awoke it was already night2 ,the church was empty1 and there was no light1 ,save where the lamps1 that glimmered few and faint1 ,lighted a little space before some saint4 ,he started from his seat and gazed around1 ,but saw no living thing and heard no sound4 ,he groped toward the door1 but it was locked2 ,he cried aloud1 and listened1 and then knocked1 ,and uttered awful threatenings and complaints1 ,and imprecations upon men and saints4 ,the sounds reechoed from the roof and walls ,as if dead priests were laughing in their stalls4 ,at length the sexton hearing from without ,the tumult of the knocking and the shout1 ,and thinking thieves were in the house of prayer1 ,came with his lantern asking1 ,who is there8 ,half choked with rage1 ,king ,robert fiercely said1 ,open3 ',tis ,i1 the ,king6 ,art thou afraid8 ,the frightened sexton muttering with a curse1 ,this is some drunken vagabond or worse6 ,turned the great key and flung the portal wide2 ,a man rushed by him at a single stride1 ,haggard1 half naked1 without hat or cloak1 ,who neither turned1 nor looked at him1 nor spoke1 ,but leaped into the blackness of the night1 ,and vanished like a spectre from his sight4 ,robert of ,sicily1 brother of ,pope ,urbane ,and ,valmond1 ,emperor of ,allemaine1 ,despoiled of his magnificent attire1 ,bareheaded1 breathless1 and besprent with mire1 ,with sense of wrong and outrage desperate1 ,strode on and thundered at the palace gate2 ,rushed through the courtyard1 thrusting in his rage ,to right and left each seneschal and page1 ,and hurried up the broad and sounding stair1 ,his white face ghastly in the torches' glare4 ,from hall to hall he rushed in breathless speed1 ,voices and cries he heard1 but did not heed1 ,until at last he reached the banquet room1 ,blazing with light and breathing with perfume4 ,there on the dais sat another king1 ,wearing his robes1 his crown1 his signet ring1 ,king ,robert's self in feature1 form and height1 ,but all transfigured with angelic light4 ,it was an ,angel2 and his presence there ,with a divine effulgence filled the air1 ,an exaltation piercing the disguise1 ,though none the hidden ,angel recognize4 ,a moment speechless1 motionless1 amazed1 ,the throneless monarch on the ,angel gazed1 ,who met his look of anger and surprise ,with the divine compassion of his eyes2 ,then said1 ,who art thou1 and why comest thou here8 ,to which ,king ,robert answered with a sneer1 ,i am the ,king1 and come to claim my own ,from an imposter1 who usurps my throne6 ,and suddenly1 at these audacious words1 ,up sprang the angry guests and drew their swords6 ,the ,angel answered with unruffled brow1 ,nay1 not the king1 but the king's ,jester1 thou ,henceforth shalt wear the bells and scalloped cape1 ,and for thy counselor shalt lead an ape2 ,thou shalt obey my servants when they call1 ,and wait upon my henchmen in the hall6 ,deaf to ,king ,robert's threats and cries and prayers1 ,they thrust him from the hall and down the stairs2 ,a group of tittering pages ran before1 ,and as they opened wide the folding doors1 ,his heart failed1 for he heard1 with strange alarms1 ,the boisterous laughter of the men-at-arms1 ,and all the vaulted chamber roar and ring ,with the mock plaudits of ,long live the ,king6 ,next morning1 waking with the day's first beam1 ,he said within himself1 ,it was a dream6 ,but the straw rustled as he turned his head1 ,there were the cap and bells beside his bed1 ,around him rose the bare discolored walls1 ,close by the steeds were champing in their stalls1 ,and in the corner1 a revolting shape1 ,shivering and chattering sat the wretched ape4 ,it was no dream2 the world he loved so much ,had turned to dust and ashes at his touch6 ,days came and went2 and now returned again ,to ,sicily the old ,saturnian reign2 ,under the ,angel's governance benign ,the happy island danced with corn and wine1 ,and deep within the mountain's burning breast ,enceladus1 the giant1 was at rest4 ,meanwhile ,king ,robert yielded to his fate1 ,sullen and silent and disconsolate1 ,dressed in the motley garb that ,jesters wear1 ,with look bewildered and a vacant stare1 ,close shaven above the ears as monks are shorn1 ,by courtiers mocked1 by pages laughed to scorn1 ,his only friend the ape1 his only food ,what others left1--he still was unsubdued4 ,and when the ,angel met him on his way1 ,and half in earnest1 half in jest1 would say1 ,sternly1 though tenderly1 that he might feel1 ,the velvet scabbard held a sword of steel1 ,art thou the ,king8 the passion of his woe1 ,burst from him in resistless overflow1 ,and1 lifting high his forehead he would fling ,the haughty answer back1 ,i am1 ,i am1 the ,king6 ,almost three years were ended1 when there came ,ambassadors of great repute and fame ,from ,valmond1 ,emperor of ,allemaine1 ,unto ,king ,robert1 saying that ,pope ,urbane ,by letter summoned them forthwith to come ,on ,holy ,thursday to his ,city of ,rome4 ,the ,pope received them with great pomp and blare ,of bannered trumpets1 on ,st4 ,peter's ,square1 ,giving his benediction and embrace1 ,fervent1 and full of apostolic grace4 ,while with congratulations and with prayers ,he entertained the ,angel unawares4 ,robert1 the ,jester1 bursting through the crowd1 ,into their presence rushed1 and cried aloud1 ,i am the ,king6 ,look and behold in me ,robert1 your brother1 ,king of ,sicily6 ,this man who wears my semblance in your eyes1 ,is an imposter in a king's disguise4 ,do you not know me8 ,does no voice within ,answer my cry1 and say we are akin8 ,the ,pope in silence1 but with troubled mien1 ,gazed at the ,angel's countenance serene2 ,the ,emperor1 laughing said1 ,it is strange sport ,to keep a madman for thy fool at court6 ,and the poor baffled ,jester in disgrace ,was hustled back among the populace4 ,in solemn state the ,holy ,week went by1 ,and ,easter ,sunday gleamed upon the sky2 ,the presence of the ,angel1 with its light1 ,before the sun rose1 made the city bright1 ,and with new fervor filled the hearts of men1 ,who felt that ,christ indeed had risen again4 ,even the ,jester1 on his bed of straw1 ,with haggard eyes the unwonted splendor saw1 ,he felt within a power unfelt before1 ,and1 kneeling humbly on the chamber floor1 ,he heard the rushing garments of the ,lord ,sweep through the silent air1 ascending heavenward4 ,and now the visit ending1 and once more ,valmond returning to the ,danube's shore1 ,homeward the ,angel journeyed1 and again ,the land was made resplendent with his train1 ,flashing along the towns of ,italy ,unto ,salerno1 and from thence by sea4 ,and when once more within ,palermo's wall1 ,and1 seated on the throne in his great hall1 ,he heard the ,angelus from convent towers1 ,as if a better world conversed with ours1 ,he beckoned to ,king ,robert to draw nigher1 ,and with a gesture bade the rest retire2 ,and when they were alone1 the ,angel said1 ,art thou the ,king8 ,then1 bowing down his head1 ,king ,robert crossed both hands upon his breast1 ,and meekly answered him3 ,thou knowest best6 ,my sins as scarlet are2 let me go hence1 ,and in some cloister's school of penitence1 ,across those stones that pave the way to heaven1 ,walk barefoot1 till my guilty soul be shriven6 ,the ,angel smiled1 and from his radiant face ,a holy light illumined all the place1 ,and through the open window1 loud and clear1 ,they heard the monks chant in the chapel near1 ,above the noise and tumult of the street3 ,he has put down the mighty from their seat1 ,and has exalted them of low degree6 ,and through the chant a second melody ,rose like the throbbing of a single string3 ,i am an ,angel1 and thou art the ,king6 ,king ,robert1 who was standing near the throne1 ,lifted his eyes1 and lo6 he was alone6 ,but all appareled as in days of old1 ,with ermined mantle and with cloth of gold1 ,and when his courtiers came1 they found him there ,kneeling upon the floor1 absorbed in silent prayer4 ,,footnote3 #h ,used by permission of1 and special arrangement with1 ,houghton1 ,mifflin1 ,co41 authorized publishers of his works4 ,,the ,,lady ,,of ,,shalott ,,alfred ,,lord ,,tennyson ,,part ,i ,on either side the river lie ,long fields of barley and of rye1 ,that clothe the wold and meet the sky2 ,and thro' the field the road runs by ,to many-tower'd ,camelot2 ,and up and down the people go1 ,gazing where the lilies blow ,round an island there below1 ,the island of ,shalott4 ,willows whiten1 aspens quiver1 ,little breezes dusk and shiver ,thro' the wave that runs forever ,by the island in the river ,flowing down to ,camelot4 ,four gray walls1 and four gray towers1 ,overlook a space of flowers1 ,and the silent isle embowers ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,by the margin1 willow-veil'd ,slide the heavy barges trail'd ,by slow horses2 and unhail'd ,the shallop flitteth silken-sail'd ,skimming down to ,camelot4 ,but who hath seen her wave her hand8 ,or at the casement seen her stand8 ,or is she known in all the land1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott8 ,only reapers1 reaping early ,in among the bearded barley1 ,hear a song that echoes cheerly ,from the river winding clearly1 ,down to tower'd ,camelot3 ,and by the moon the reaper weary ,piling sheaves in uplands airy1 ,listening1 whispers ',tis the fairy ,lady of ,shalott4 ,,part ,,ii ,there she weaves by night and day ,a magic web with colors gay4 ,she has heard a whisper say1 ,a curse is on her if she stay ,to look down to ,camelot4 ,she knows not what the curse may be1 ,and so she weaveth steadily1 ,and little other care hath she1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,and moving thro' a mirror clear ,that hangs before her all the year1 ,shadows of the world appear1 ,there she sees the highway near ,winding down to ,camelot3 ,there the river eddy whirls1 ,and there the surly village-churls1 ,and the red cloaks of market girls1 ,pass onward from ,shalott4 ,sometimes a troop of damsels glad1 ,an abbot on an ambling pad1 ,sometimes a curly shepherd lad1 ,or long-hair'd page in crimson clad1 ,goes by to tower'd ,camelot2 ,and sometimes thro' the mirror blue ,the knights come riding two and two3 ,she hath no loyal knight and true1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,but in her web she still delights ,to weave the mirror's magic sights1 ,for often thro' the silent nights ,a funeral1 with plumes and lights ,and music1 went to ,camelot3 ,or when the moon was overhead1 ,came two young lovers lately wed2 ,i am half sick of shadows1 said ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,,part ,,iii ,a bow-shot from her bower-eaves1 ,he rode between the barley sheaves1 ,the sun came dazzling thro' the leaves1 ,and flamed upon the brazen greaves ,of bold ,sir ,lancelot4 ,a red-cross knight forever kneel'd ,to a lady in his shield1 ,that sparkled on the yellow field1 ,beside remote ,shalott4 ,all in the blue unclouded weather ,thick jewel'd shone the saddle-leather1 ,the helmet and the helmet-feather ,burn'd like one burning flame together1 ,as he rode down to ,camelot4 ,as often thro' the purple night1 ,below the starry clusters bright1 ,some bearded meteor1 trailing light1 ,moves over still ,shalott4 ,his broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd2 ,on burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode2 ,from underneath his helmet flow'd ,his coal-black curls as on he rode1 ,as he rode down to ,camelot4 ,from the bank and from the river ,he flashed into the crystal mirror1 ,tirra lirra1 by the river ,sang ,sir ,lancelot4 ,she left the web1 she left the loom1 ,she made three paces thro' the room1 ,she saw the water lily bloom1 ,she saw the helmet and the plume1 ,she look'd down to ,camelot4 ,out flew the web and floated wide2 ,the mirror crack'd from side to side2 ,the curse is come upon me1 cried ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,,part ,,iv ,in the stormy east-wind straining1 ,the pale yellow woods were waning1 ,the broad stream in his banks complaining1 ,heavily the low sky raining ,over tower'd ,camelot2 ,down she came and found a boat ,beneath a willow left afloat1 ,and round about the prow she wrote ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,and down the river's dim expanse ,like some bold seer in a trance1 ,seeing all his own mischance-- ,with a glassy countenance ,did she look to ,camelot4 ,and at the closing of the day ,she loosed the chain1 and down she lay2 ,the broad stream bore her far away1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,lying robed in snowy white ,that loosely flew to left and right-- ,the leaves upon her falling light-- ,thro' the noises of the night ,she floated down to ,camelot3 ,and as the boat-head wound along ,the willowy hills and fields among1 ,they heard her singing her last song1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,heard a carol1 mournful1 holy1 ,chanted loudly1 chanted lowly1 ,till her blood was frozen slowly ,and her eyes were darken'd wholly1 ,turn'd to tower'd ,camelot4 ,for ere she reached upon the tide ,the first house by the water side1 ,singing in her song she died1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,under tower and balcony1 ,by garden-wall and gallery1 ,a gleaming shape she floated by1 ,dead-pale between the houses high1 ,silent into ,camelot4 ,out upon the wharfs they came1 ,knight and burgher1 lord and dame1 ,and around the prow they read her name1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,who is this8 and what is here8 ,and in the lighted palace near ,died the sound of royal cheer2 ,and they cross'd themselves for fear1 ,all the knights at ,camelot3 ,but ,lancelot mused a little space2 ,he said1 ,she has a lovely face2 ,god in ,his mercy lend her grace1 ,the ,lady of ,shalott4 ,a ,,legend ,,of ,,service#i ,,henry ,,van ,,dyke ,it pleased the ,lord of ,angels 7praise his name67 ,to hear1 one day1 report from those who came ,with pitying sorrow1 or exultant joy1 ,to tell of earthly tasks in ,his employ2 ,for some were sorry when they saw how slow ,the stream of heavenly love on earth must flow2 ,and some were glad because their eyes had seen1 ,along its banks1 fresh flowers and living green4 ,so1 at a certain hour1 before the throne ,the youngest angel1 ,asmiel1 stood alone2 ,nor glad1 nor sad1 but full of earnest thought1 ,and thus his tidings to the ,master brought3 ,lord1 in the city ,lupon ,i have found ,three servants of thy holy name1 renowned ,above their fellows4 ,one is very wise1 ,with thoughts that ever range above the skies2 ,and one is gifted with the golden speech ,that makes men glad to hear when he will teach2 ,and one1 with no rare gift or grace endued1 ,has won the people's love by doing good4 ,with three such saints ,lupon is trebly blest2 ,but1 ,lord1 ,i fain would know which loves thee best8 ,then spake the ,lord of ,angels1 to whose look ,the hearts of all are like an open book3 ,in every soul the secret thought ,i read1 ,and well ,i know who loves me best indeed4 ,but every life has pages vacant still1 ,whereon a man may write the thing he will2 ,therefore ,i read in silence1 day by day1 ,and wait for hearts untaught to learn my way4 ,but thou shalt go to ,lupon1 to the three ,who serve me there1 and take this word from me3 ,tell each of them his ,master bids him go ,alone to ,spiran's huts1 across the snow2 ,there he shall find a certain task for me1 ,but what1 ,i do not tell to them nor thee4 ,give thou the message1 make my word the test1 ,and crown for me the one who answers best4 ,silent the angel stood1 with folded hands1 ,to take the imprint of his ,lord's commands2 ,then drew one breath1 obedient and elate1 ,and passed the self-same hour1 through ,lupon's gate4 ,first to the ,temple door he made his way2 ,and then because it was an holy-day1 ,he saw the folk by thousands thronging1 stirred ,by ardent thirst to hear the preacher's word4 ,then1 while the echoes murmured ,bernol's name1 ,through aisles that hushed behind him1 ,bernol came2 ,strung to the keenest pitch of conscious might1 ,with lips prepared and firm1 and eyes alight4 ,one moment at the pulpit step he knelt ,in silent prayer1 and on his shoulder felt ,the angel's hand3--,the ,master bids thee go ,alone to ,spiran's huts1 across the snow1 ,to serve ,him there4 ,then ,bernol's hidden face ,went white as death1 and for about the space ,of ten slow heart-beats there was no reply2 ,till ,bernol looked around and whispered1 ,why8 ,but answer to this question came there none2 ,the angel sighed1 and with a sigh was gone4 ,within the humble house where ,malvin spent ,his studious years1 on holy things intent1 ,sweet stillness reigned2 and there the angel found ,the saintly sage immersed in thought profound1 ,weaving with patient toil and willing care ,a web of wisdom1 wonderful and fair3 ,a seamless robe for ,truth's great bridal meet1 ,and needing but one thread to be complete4 ,then ,asmiel touched his hand and broke the thread ,of fine-spun thought1 and very gently said1 ,the ,one of whom thou thinkest bids thee go ,alone to ,spiran's huts1 across the snow1 ,to serve ,him there4 ,with sorrow and surprise ,malvin looked up1 reluctance in his eyes4 ,the broken thought1 the strangeness of the call1 ,the perilous passage of the mountain-wall1 ,the solitary journey1 and the length ,of ways unknown1 too great for his frail strength1 ,appalled him4 ,with a doubtful brow ,he scanned the doubtful task1 and muttered1 ,how8 ,but ,asmiel answered1 as he turned to go1 ,with cold disheartened voice1 ,i do not know4 ,now as he went1 with fading hope1 to seek ,the third and last1 to whom ,god bade him speak1 ,scarce twenty steps away whom should he meet ,but ,fermor1 hurrying cheerful down the street1 ,with ready heart that faced his work like play1 ,and joyed to find it greater day by day6 ,the angel stopped him with uplifted hand1 ,and gave without delay his ,lord's command3 ,he whom thou servest here would have thee go ,alone to ,spiran's huts1 across the snow1 ,to serve ,him there4 ,ere ,asmiel breathed again ,the eager answer leaped to meet him1 ,when8 ,the angel's face with inward joy grew bright1 ,and all his figure glowed with heavenly light2 ,he took the golden circlet from his brow ,and gave the crown to ,fermor1 answering2 ,now6 ,for thou hast met the ,master's bidden test1 ,and ,i have found the man who loves ,him best4 ,not thine1 nor mine1 to question or reply ,when ,he commands us1 asking 'how8' or 'why8' ,he knows the cause2 ,his ways are wise and just2 ,who serves the ,king must serve with perfect trust4 ,,footnote3 #i ,from ,music and other ,poems1 copyright1 #aijd1 by ,charles ,scribner's ,sons4 ,,little ,,boy ,,blue ,,eugene ,,field ,the little toy dog is covered with dust1 ,but sturdy and stanch he stands2 ,and the little tin soldier is red with rust1 ,and his musket molds in his hands4 ,time was when the little toy dog was new ,and the soldier was passing fair1 ,and that was the time when our ,little ,boy ,blue ,kissed them and put them there4 ,now1 don't you go till ,i come1 he said2 ,and don't you make any noise6 ,so toddling off to his trundle bed ,he dreamt of the pretty toys4 ,and1 as he was dreaming1 an angel song ,awakened our ,little ,boy ,blue-- ,oh1 the years are many1 the years are long1 ,but the little toy friends are true4 ,ay1 faithful to ,little ,boy ,blue they stand1 ,each in the same old place4 ,awaiting the touch of a little hand1 ,the smile of a little face4 ,and they wonder1 as waiting these long years through1 ,in the dust of that little chair1 ,what has become of that ,little ,boy ,blue ,since he kissed them and put them there4 ,,mary',s ,,night ,,ride#aj ,,george ,w4 ,,cable ,mary ,richling1 the heroine of the story1 was the wife of ,john ,richling1 a resident of ,new ,orleans4 ,at the breaking out of the ,civil ,war she went to visit her parents in ,milwaukee4 ,about the time of the bombardment of ,new ,orleans she received news of the dangerous illness of her husband1 and she decided at once to reach his bedside1 if possible4 ,taking with her1 her baby daughter1 a child of three years1 she proceeded southward1 where1 after several unsuccessful attempts to secure a pass1 she finally determined to break through the lines4 ,about the middle of the night ,mary ,richling was sitting very still and upright on a large1 dark horse that stood champing his ,mexican bit in the black shadow of a great oak4 ,alice rested before her1 fast asleep against her bosom4 ,mary held by the bridle another horse1 whose naked saddle-tree was empty4 ,a few steps in front of her the light of the full moon shone almost straight down upon a narrow road that just there emerged from the shadow of woods on either side1 and divided into a main right fork and a much smaller one that curved around to ,mary's left4 ,off in the direction of the main fork the sky was all aglow with camp-fires4 ,only just here on the left there was a cool and grateful darkness4 ,she lifted her head alertly4 ,a twig crackled under a tread1 and the next moment a man came out of the bushes at the left1 and without a word took the bridle of the old horse from her fingers and vaulted into the saddle4 ,the hand that rested a moment on the cantle as he rose grasped a navy six4 ,he was dressed in dull homespun1 but he was the same who had been dressed in blue4 ,he turned his horse and led the way down the lesser road4 ,if we'd gone on three hundred yards further1 he whispered1 falling back and smiling broadly1 we'd 'a' run into the pickets4 ,i went nigh enough to see the videttes settin' on their hosses in the main road4 ,this here ain't no road2 it just goes up to a nigger quarters4 ,i've got one o' the niggers to show us the way4 ,where is he8 whispered ,mary2 but before her companion could answer1 a tattered form moved from behind a bush a little in advance and started ahead in the path1 walking and beckoning4 ,presently they turned into a clear1 open forest1 and followed the long1 rapid1 swinging stride of the negro for nearly an hour4 ,then they halted on the bank of a deep1 narrow stream4 ,the negro made a motion for them to keep well to the right when they should enter the water4 ,the white man softly lifted ,alice to his arms1 directed and assisted ,mary to kneel in her saddle1 with her skirts gathered carefully under her1 and so they went down into the cold stream1 the negro first1 with arms outstretched above the flood2 then ,mary1 and then the white man1--or1 let us say plainly1 the spy--with the unawakened child on his breast4 ,and so they rose out of it on the farther side without a shoe or garment wet1 save the rags of their dark guide4 ,again they followed him1 along a line of stake-and-rider fence1 with the woods on one side and the bright moonlight flooding a field of young cotton on the other4 ,now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs1 now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow1 and once ,mary's blood turned1 for an instant1 almost to ice at the unearthly shriek of the hoot owl just above her head4 ,at length they found themselves in a dim1 narrow road1 and the negro stopped4 ,dess keep dish yeh road fo' 'bout half mile1 an' you strak 'pon de broad1 main road4 ,tek de left1 an' you go whah yo' fancy tek you4 ,good-by1 whispered ,mary4 ,good-by1 ,miss1 said the negro1 in the same low voice2 good-by1 boss2 don't you fo'git you promise tek me thoo to de ,yankee' when you come back4 ,i 'feered you gwine fo'git it1 boss4 ,the spy said he would not1 and they left him4 ,the half-mile was soon passed1 though it turned out to be a mile and a half1 and at length ,mary's companion looked back as they rode single file with ,mary in the rear1 and said softly3 ,there's the road1 pointing at its broad1 pale line with his six-shooter4 ,as they entered it and turned to the left1 ,mary1 with ,alice again in her arms1 moved somewhat ahead of her companion1 her indifferent horsemanship having compelled him to drop back to avoid a prickly bush4 ,his horse was just quickening his pace to regain the lost position1 when a man sprang up from the ground on the farther side of the highway1 snatched a carbine from the earth and cried3 ,halt6 ,the dark recumbent forms of six or eight others could be seen1 enveloped in their blankets1 lying about a few red coals4 ,mary turned a frightened look backward and met the eyes of her companion4 ,move a little faster1 said he1 in a low1 clear voice4 ,as she promptly did so she heard him answer the challenge1 as his horse trotted softly after hers4 ,don't stop us1 my friend2 we're taking a sick child to the doctor4 ,halt1 you hound6 the cry rang out2 and as ,mary glanced back three or four men were just leaping into the road4 ,but she saw also her companion1 his face suffused with an earnestness that was almost an agony1 rise in his stirrups with the stoop of his shoulders all gone1 and wildly cry3 ,go6 ,she smote the horse and flew4 ,alice woke and screamed4 ,hush1 my darling1 said the mother1 laying on the withe2 mamma's here4 ,hush1 darling1 mamma's here4 ,don't be frightened1 darling baby4 ,o ,god1 spare my child6 and away she sped4 ,the report of a carbine rang out and went rolling away in a thousand echoes through the wood4 ,two others followed in sharp succession1 and there went close by ,mary's ear the waspish whine of a minie-ball4 ,at the same moment she recognized1 once1--twice1--thrice1--just at her back where the hoofs of her companion's horse were clattering--the tart rejoinders of his navy six4 ,go6 he cried again4 ,lay low6 lay low6 cover the child6 ,but his words were needless4 ,with head bowed forward and form crouched over the crying1 clinging child1 with slackened rein and fluttering dress1 and sun-bonnet and loosened hair blown back upon her shoulders1 with lips compressed and silent prayers1 ,mary was riding for life and liberty and her husband's bedside4 ,o mamma1 mamma1 wailed the terrified little one4 ,go on6 ,go on6 cried the voice behind2 they're--saddling up6 ,go6 go6 ,we're goin' to make it6 ,we're going to make it6 ,go-o-o6 ,and they made it6 ,,footnote3 #aj ,from ,dr4 ,sevier4 ,,nydia1 ,,the ,,blind ,,girl#aa ,,edward ,,bulwer ,,lytton ,as ,glaucus1 a young ,athenian1 now a resident of ,pompeii1 was strolling with his friend ,clodius through the streets of that renowned city1 their steps were arrested by a crowd gathered round an open space where three streets met2 and just where the porticoes of a light1 graceful temple threw their shade1 there stood a young girl1 with a flower-basket on her right arm and a small three-stringed instrument of music in her left hand1 to whose low and soft tones she was modulating a low1 plaintive air4 ,it is my poor1 blind ,thessalian1 said ,glaucus1 stopping2 ,i have not seen her since my return to ,pompeii4 ,hush6 let us listen to her song4 ,,the ,,blind ,,flower ,,girl',s ,,song ,buy my flowers1 ,o buy1 ,i pray6 ,the blind girl comes from afar2 ,if the earth be as fair as ,i hear them say1 ,these flowers her children are6 ,do they her beauty keep8 ,they are fresh from her lap1 ,i know1 ,for ,i caught them fast asleep ,in her arms an hour ago4 ,ye have a world of light1 ,where love in the loved rejoices2 ,but the blind girl's home is the house of night1 ,and its beings are empty voices4 ,come buy1--buy1 come buy6-- ,hark6 how the sweet things sigh 7,for they have a voice like ours7 ,o buy--,o buy the flowers6 ,i must have that bunch of violets1 sweet ,nydia1 said ,glaucus1 your voice is more charming than ever4 ,the blind girl started forward as she heard the ,athenian's voice2 then as suddenly paused1 while a blush of timidity flushed over neck1 cheeks1 and temples4 ,so you are returned6 she said in a low voice4 ,yes1 child1 ,i have not been at ,pompeii above a few days4 ,my garden wants your care1 you will visit it1 ,i trust1 to-morrow1 and mind1 no garlands at my house shall be woven by any hands but those of the pretty ,nydia4 ,nydia smiled joyously but did not answer2 and ,glaucus1 placing in his breast the violets he had selected1 turned gaily and carelessly from the crowd4 ,though of gentle birth1 for her cradle was rocked at the foot of ,olympus1 ,nydia had been sold when quite young to ,burbo1 a gladiator of the amphitheater4 ,she was cruelly treated by the wife of ,burbo4 ,glaucus bought her1 took her to his home1 and her sweetest joy was to minister to the comfort and entertainment of her deliverer4 ,the vines that grew upon the walls of the peristyle were not more graceful1 their tendrils not more trusting and tender1 nor the flowers woven into wreaths and garlands by her skillful fingers more beautiful than the blind flower-girl of the house of ,glaucus4 ,as the months went on what wonder that the kind words and sympathetic voice which had been the first that had sounded musically to her ear should awaken in the breast of ,nydia a deeper love than that which springs from gratitude alone6 ,what wonder that in her innocence and blindness she knew no reason why the most brilliant and the most graceful of the young nobles of ,pompeii should entertain none other than feelings of friendship for her6 ,when the ,athenian drew her unconsciously to his breast1 deeming her still a child--when he kissed her cheek and wound his arm around her trembling form1 ,nydia felt that those feelings she had innocently cherished were of love4 ,what wonder then that into her wild and passionate soul should creep the pangs of jealousy when another claimed the homage of him who was all to her6 ,glaucus loved ,ione1 a beautiful young ,neapolitan of ,greek parentage who had lately come to ,pompeii4 ,she was one of those brilliant characters which seldom flash across our career4 ,she united in the highest perfection the rarest of earthly gifts1--,genius and ,beauty4 ,no one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them4 ,in the person of ,ione1 ,glaucus found the long-sought idol of his dreams2 and so infatuated was he1 that he could talk of no one else4 ,no song was sweet but that which breathed of love1 and to him love was but a synonym of ,ione4 ,play to us1 dear ,nydia1--play1 and give us one of thy songs2 whether it be of magic or not as thou wilt--let it at least be of love4 ,of love6 wish you that ,i should sing of love8 ,yes4 ,she moved a little way from ,ione1 who had learned to love her more as a sister than a slave1 and placing her light1 graceful instrument on her knee1 after a short prelude1 she sang the following strain1 in which with touching pathos1 her own sighs were represented by the ,wind1 the brightness of the beautiful ,ione by the ,sun-beam1 and the personality of ,glaucus by his favorite flower1 the ,rose4 ,i ,the ,wind and the ,beam loved the ,rose1 ,and the ,rose loved one2 ,for who seeks the ,wind where it blows8 ,or loves not the ,sun8 ,,ii ,none knew where the humble ,wind stole1 ,poor sport of the skies-- ,none dreamt that the ,wind had a soul1 ,in its mournful sighs6 ,,iii ,oh1 happy ,beam6 how canst thou prove ,that bright love of thine8 ,in thy light is the proof of thy love1 ,thou hast but--to shine6 ,,iv ,how can the ,wind its love reveal8 ,unwelcome its sigh2 ,mute--mute to its ,rose be it still-- ,its proof is--to die6 ,alike in their mornings at the house of ,ione1 and in their evening excursions1 ,nydia was usually their constant1 and often their sole companion4 ,they did not guess the secret fires which consumed her2 the flames of which were ever fanned by the unconscious breath of the two lovers4 ,yet her fidelity arose above her pitiful pangs of jealousy and in the hour of need she was the tried and trusted4 ,the scene changes2 where only the brightness of uninterrupted love had hitherto fallen1 now creep the black shadows of tragic sorrow4 ,ione falls into the clutches of ,arbaces1 a subtle1 crafty ,egyptian1 who attempted by the magic of his dark sorcery1 to win her away from ,glaucus4 ,in pursuit of his base designs1 ,arbaces murders ,apaecides1 the brother of ,ione1 imprisons the priest ,calenus1 the only witness of the deed1 and with great cunning weaves a convicting web of circumstantial evidence around ,glaucus1 his hated rival4 ,glaucus is tried1 convicted1 and doomed to be thrown to the lion4 ,ione and ,nydia are also prisoners in the house of ,arbaces4 ,glaucus has been placed in that gloomy and narrow cell in which the criminals of the arena awaited their last and fearful struggle4 ,alas6 how faithless are the friendships made around an epicurean board6 ,where were the gay loiterers who once lingered at the feasts and drank the rich wines of the house of ,glaucus8 ,only ,sallust shed a tear1 but he was powerless against ,arbaces who was backed by the corrupt priesthood of ,isis4 ,what ministering angel should now come forth as a light out of darkness bearing1 even in her blindness1 the conditions of deliverance1 but ,nydia4 ,from the slaves of ,arbaces she learned the approaching fate of ,glaucus4 ,working upon the superstition of her special guard ,sosia1 she manages to escape his vigilance for a time1 and creeping along a dark passage she overhears the cries of the priest ,calenus lately incarcerated in an adjoining dungeon cell4 ,from him she learns the circumstances of the crime of ,arbaces for which the innocent ,glaucus was doomed to die4 ,a few hours later she was captured by ,sosia and replaced in her cell4 ,yet knowing that the sole chance for the life of ,glaucus rested on her1 this young girl1 frail1 passionate1 and acutely susceptible as she was--resolved not to give way to despair4 ,glaucus was in deadly peril1 but she should save him6 ,sosia was her only hope1 the only instrument with which she could tamper4 ,as if afraid he would be again outwitted1 ,sosia refrained from visiting her until a late hour of the following day4 ,kind ,sosia1 chide me not1 said ,nydia1 ,i cannot endure to be so long alone1 the solitude appalls me4 ,sit with me1 ,i pray1 a little while4 ,nay1 fear not that ,i should attempt to escape2 place thy seat before the door4 ,sosia1 how much dost thou require to make up thy freedom8 ,how much8 said he1 why1 about #bjjj sesterces4 ,the ,gods be praised6 not more8 ,seest thou these bracelets and this chain8 they are worth double that sum4 ,i will give them thee if thou wilt let me out1 only for one little hour6 let me out at midnight--,i will return ere to-morrow's dawn2 nay1 thou canst go with me4 ,no1 said ,sosia1 sturdily1 a slave once disobeying ,arbaces is never heard of more4 ,well1 then1 thou wilt not1 at least1 refuse to take a letter for me2 thy master cannot kill thee for that4 ,to whom8 ,to ,sallust1 the gay ,sallust4 ,glaucus was my master1 he purchased me from a cruel lord4 ,he alone has been kind to me4 ,he is to die to-morrow4 ,i shall never live happily if ,i cannot1 in this hour of trial and doom1 let him know that one heart is grateful to him4 ,sallust is his friend2 he will convey my message4 ,well1 give me the trinkets1 and ,i will take the letter4 ,nydia carefully prepared the epistle1 but ere she placed it in the hands of ,sosia she thus addressed him3 ,sosia1 ,i am blind and in prison4 ,thou mayst think to deceive me--thou mayst pretend only to take the letter to ,sallust--thou mayst not fulfill thy charge2 but here ,i solemnly dedicate thy head to vengeance1 thy soul to the infernal powers1 if thou wrongest thy trust2 and ,i call upon thee to place thy right hand of faith in mine1 and repeat after me these words2--',by the ground on which we stand--by the elements which contain life and which can curse life--by ,orcus1 the all-avenging--by the ,olympian ,jupiter1 the all-seeing--,i swear that ,i will honestly discharge my trust1 and faithfully deliver this letter into the hands of ,sallust4' ,enough6 ,i trust thee--take thy reward4 ,it is already dark--depart at once4 ,sosia was true to his trust--,sallust read the letter1 she wrote1--,i am a prisoner in the house of ,arbaces4 ,hasten to the ,praetor6 procure my release1 and we yet shall save ,glaucus from the lion4 ,there is another prisoner within these walls1 whose witness can exonerate the ,athenian from the charge against him2--one who saw the crime--who can prove the criminal to be a villain hitherto unsuspected4 ,fly6 hasten6 quick6 quick6 ,bring with you armed men1 lest resistance be made1--and a cunning and dexterous smith2 for the dungeon of my fellow-prisoner is thick and strong4 ,oh6 by thy right hand1 and thy father's ashes1 lose not a moment6 ,the day for the sports in the amphitheater had come and all the seats were filled with eager and expectant people4 ,the gladiatorial fights and other games of the arena were completed4 ,bring forth the lion and ,glaucus the ,athenian1 said the editor4 ,just then a loud cry was heard at one of the entrances of the arena2 the crowd gave way and suddenly ,sallust appeared on the senatorial benches1 his hair disheveled2 breathless2 half exhausted--he cast his eyes hastily around the ring4 ,remove the ,athenian1 he cried1 haste1--he is innocent4 ,arrest ,arbaces the ,egyptian4 ,he is the murderer of ,apaecides4 ,art thou mad1 ,o ,sallust8 said the praetor1 what means this raving8 ,remove the ,athenian--quick1 or his blood be on your head4 ,i bring with me the eye-witness to the death of ,apaecides4 ,room there--stand back--give way4 ,people of ,pompeii1 fix every eye on ,arbaces--there he sits--room there for the priest ,calenus4 ,enough at present1 said the praetor4 ,the details must be reserved for a more suiting time and place4 ,ho6 guards6 remove the accused ,glaucus1 arrest ,arbaces1 guard ,calenus6 ,sallust1 we hold you responsible for your accusation4 ,let the sports be resumed4 ,as the praetor gave the word of release1 there was a cry of joy--a female voice--a child voice--and it was of joy6 ,it rang through the heart of the assembly with electric force--it was touching1 it was holy1 that child's voice6 ,silence6 said the grave praetor--who is there8 ,the blind girl--,nydia1 answered ,sallust2 it is her hand that raised ,calenus from the grave and delivered ,glaucus from the lion4 ,stunned by his reprieve1 doubting that he was awake1 ,glaucus had been led by the officers of the arena into a small cell within the walls of the theater4 ,they threw a loose robe over his form and crowded around in congratulation and wonder4 ,there was an impatient and fretful cry without the cell2 the throng gave way1 and the blind girl flung herself at the feet of ,glaucus4 ,it is ,i who saved thee1 she sobbed1 now let me die6 ,nydia1 my child6--my preserver6 ,oh1 let me feel thy touch--thy breath6 yes1 yes1 thou livest6 ,we are not too late6 ,that dread door methought would never yield6 ,but thou livest6 ,thou livest yet6--and ,i--,i have saved thee6 ,,footnote3 #aa ,adapted by ,robt4 ,i4 ,fulton from ,last ,days of ,pompeii4 ,o ,,captain1 ,,my ,,captain6#ab ,,on ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,lincoln ,,walt ,,whitman ,o ,captain1 my ,captain6 our fearful trip is done2 ,the ship has weathered every rack1 the prize we sought is won2 ,the port is near1 the bells ,i hear1 the people all exulting1 ,while follow eyes the steady keel1 the vessel grim and daring2 ,but1 ,o heart1 heart1 heart6 ,o the bleeding drops of red1 ,where on the deck my ,captain lies1 fallen cold and dead4 ,o ,captain1 my ,captain6 rise up and hear the bells2 ,rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills1 ,for you bouquets and ribboned wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding1 ,for you they call1 the swaying mass1 their eager faces turning2 ,here1 ,captain1 dear father6 this arm beneath your head6 ,it is some dream that on the deck1 you've fallen cold and dead4 ,my ,captain does not answer1 his lips are pale and still2 ,my ,captain does not feel my arm1 he has no pulse nor will2 ,the ship is anchored safe and sound1 its voyage is closed and done2 ,from fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won2 ,exult1 ,o shores1 and ring1 ,o bells6 but ,i with mournful tread ,walk the deck where my ,captain lies1 fallen cold and dead4 ,,footnote3 #ab ,by permission of ,david ,mc,kay1 publisher4 ,,on ,,the ,,other ,,train ,a ,,clock',s ,,story ,,anonymous ,there1 ,simmons1 you blockhead6 ,why didn't you trot that old woman aboard her train8 ,she'll have to wait here now until the #a4je ,a4,m4 ,you didn't tell me4 ,yes1 ,i did tell you4 ',twas only your confounded stupid carelessness4 ,she-- ,she6 ,you blockhead6 ,what else could you expect of her6 ,probably she hasn't any wit2 besides1 she isn't bound on a very jolly journey--got a pass up the road to the poorhouse4 ,i'll go and tell her1 and if you forget her to-night1 see if ,i don't make mince-meat of you6 and our worthy ticket agent shook his fist menacingly at his subordinate4 ,you've missed your train1 marm1 he remarked1 coming forward to a queer-looking bundle in the corner4 ,a trembling hand raised the faded black veil1 and revealed the sweetest old face ,i ever saw4 ,never mind1 said a quivering voice4 ',tis only three o'clock now2 you'll have to wait until the night train1 which doesn't go up until #a4je4 ,very well1 sir2 ,i can wait4 ,wouldn't you like to go to some hotel8 ,simmons will show you the way4 ,no1 thank you1 sir4 ,one place is as good as another to me4 ,besides1 ,i haven't any money4 ,very well1 said the agent1 turning away indifferently4 ,simmons will tell you when it's time4 ,all the afternoon she sat there so quiet that ,i thought sometimes she must be asleep1 but when ,i looked more closely ,i could see every once in a while a great tear rolling down her cheek1 which she would wipe away hastily with her cotton handkerchief4 ,the depot was crowded1 and all was bustle and hurry until the #i4ej train going east came due2 then every passenger left except the old lady4 ,it is very rare1 indeed1 that any one takes the night express1 and almost always after ten o'clock the depot becomes silent and empty4 ,the ticket agent put on his greatcoat1 and1 bidding ,simmons keep his wits about him for once in his life1 departed for home4 ,but he had no sooner gone than that functionary stretched himself out upon the table1 as usual1 and began to snore vociferously4 ,then it was ,i witnessed such a sight as ,i never had before and never expect to again4 ,the fire had gone down--it was a cold night1 and the wind howled dismally outside4 ,the lamps grew dim and flared1 casting weird shadows upon the wall4 ,by and by ,i heard a smothered sob from the corner1 then another4 ,i looked in that direction4 ,she had risen from her seat1 and oh6 the look of agony on the poor pinched face4 ,i can't believe it1 she sobbed1 wringing her thin1 white hands4 ,oh6 ,i can't believe it6 ,my babies6 my babies6 how often have ,i held them in my arms and kissed them2 and how often they used to say back to me1 ',ise love you1 mamma1' and now1 ,o ,god6 they've turned against me4 ,where am ,i going8 ,to the poorhouse6 ,no6 no6 no6 ,i cannot6 ,i will not6 ,oh1 the disgrace6 ,and sinking upon her knees1 she sobbed out in prayer3 ,o ,god6 spare me this and take me home6 ,o ,god1 spare me this disgrace2 spare me6 ,the wind rose higher and swept through the crevices1 icy cold4 ,how it moaned and seemed to sob like something human that is hurt4 ,i began to shake1 but the kneeling figure never stirred4 ,the thin shawl had dropped from her shoulders unheeded4 ,simmons turned over and drew his blanket more closely about him4 ,oh1 how cold6 ,only one lamp remained1 burning dimly2 the other two had gone out for want of oil4 ,i could hardly see1 it was so dark4 ,at last she became quieter and ceased to moan4 ,then ,i grew drowsy1 and kind of lost the run of things after ,i had struck twelve1 when some one entered the depot with a bright light4 ,i started up4 ,it was the brightest light ,i ever saw1 and seemed to fill the room full of glory4 ,i could see 'twas a man4 ,he walked to the kneeling figure and touched her upon the shoulder4 ,she started up and turned her face wildly around4 ,i heard him say3-- ',tis train time1 ma'am4 ,come6 ,a look of joy came over her face4 ,i am ready1 she whispered4 ,then give me your pass1 ma'am4 ,she reached him a worn old book1 which he took1 and from it read aloud3-- ,come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and ,i will give you rest4 ,that's the pass over our road1 ma'am4 ,are you ready8 ,the light died away1 and darkness fell in its place4 ,my hand touched the stroke of one4 ,simmons awoke with a start and snatched his lantern4 ,the whistle sounded down brakes2 the train was due4 ,he ran to the corner and shook the old woman4 ,wake up1 marm2 'tis train time4 ,but she never heeded4 ,he gave one look at the white set face1 and1 dropping his lantern1 fled4 ,the up train halted1 the conductor shouted ,all aboard1 but no one made a move that way4 ,the next morning1 when the ticket agent came1 he found her frozen to death4 ,they whispered among themselves1 and the coroner made out the verdict apoplexy1 and it was in some way hushed up4 ,but the last look on the sweet old face1 lit up with a smile so unearthly1 ,i keep with me yet2 and when ,i think of the occurrence of that night1 ,i know she went out on the other train1 that never stopped at the poorhouse4 ,,the ,,pansy ,,anonymous ,of all the bonny buds that blow1 ,in bright or cloudy weather1 ,of all the flowers that come and go1 ,the whole twelve moons together1 ,this little purple pansy brings1 ,thoughts of the sweetest1 saddest things4 ,i had a little lover once1 ,who used to give me posies2 ,his eyes were blue as hyacinths1 ,his lips were red as roses2 ,and everybody loved to praise ,his pretty looks and winsome ways4 ,the girls that went to school with me ,made little jealous speeches1 ,because he brought me royally ,his biggest plums and peaches1 ,and always at the door would wait1 ,to carry home my books and slate4 ,they couldn't see--with pout and fling-- ,the mighty fascination ,about that little snub-nosed thing1 ,to win such admiration2 ,as if there weren't a dozen girls ,with nicer eyes and longer curls6 ,and this ,i knew as well as they1 ,and never could see clearly ,why1 more than ,marion or ,may1 ,i should be loved so dearly4 ,so once ,i asked him1 why was this2 ,he only answered with a kiss2 ,until ,i teased him3 ,tell me why1 ,i want to know the reason4 ,then from the garden-bed close by 7,the pansies were in season7 ,he plucked and gave a flower to me1 ,with sweet and simple gravity4 ,the garden is in bloom1 he said1 ,with lilies pale and slender1 ,with roses and verbenas red1 ,and fuchsias' purple splendor2 ,but over and above the rest1 ,this little heart's-ease suits me best4 ,am ,i your little heart's-ease1 then8 ,i asked with blushing pleasure4 ,he answered ,yes6 and ,yes6 again-- ,heart's-ease and dearest treasure2 ,that the round world and all the sea ,held nothing half so sweet as me6 ,i listened with a proud delight1 ,too rare for words to capture1 ,nor ever dreamed what sudden blight1 ,would come to chill my rapture4 ,could ,i foresee the tender bloom ,of pansies round a little tomb8 ,life holds some stern experience1 ,as most of us discover1 ,and ,i've had other losses since ,i lost my little lover2 ,but still this purple pansy brings ,thoughts of the sweetest1 saddest things4 ,,the ,,revenge ,a ,,ballad ,,of ,,the ,,fleet1 #aeia ,,alfred ,,lord ,,tennyson ,at ,flores in the ,azores ,sir ,richard ,grenville lay1 ,and a pinnace1 like a flutter'd bird1 came flying from far away3 ,spanish ships of war at sea6 we have sighted fifty-three6 ,then spake ,lord ,thomas ,howard3 ',fore ,god ,i am no coward2 ,but ,i cannot meet them here1 for my ships are out of gear1 ,and the half my men are sick4 ,i must fly1 but follow quick1 ,we are six ships of the line2 can we fight with fifty-three8 ,then spake ,sir ,richard ,grenville3 ,i know you are no coward2 ,you fly them for a moment to fight with them again4 ,but ,i've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore2 ,i should count myself the coward if ,i left them1 my ,lord ,howard1 ,to these ,inquisition dogs and the devildoms of ,spain4 ,so ,lord ,howard passed away with five ships of war that day1 ,till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven2 ,but ,sir ,richard bore in hand all his sick men from the land ,very carefully and slow1 ,men of ,bideford and ,devon1 ,and we laid them on the ballast down below2 ,for we brought them all aboard1 ,and they blest him in their pain1 that they were not left to ,spain1 ,to the thumbscrew and the stake1 for the glory of the ,lord4 ,he had only a hundred seamen to work the ship and to fight1 ,and he sailed away from ,flores till the ,spaniard came in sight ,with his huge sea castles heaving upon the weather bow4 ,shall we fight or shall we fly8 ,good ,sir ,richard1 let us know1 ,for to fight is but to die6 ,there'll be little of us left1 by the time this sun be set4 ,and ,sir ,richard said again3 ,we be all good ,englishmen2 ,let us bang these dogs of ,seville1 the children of the devil1 ,for ,i never turned my back upon ,don or ,devil yet4 ,sir ,richard spoke and he laugh'd1 and we roar'd a hurrah1 and so ,the little ,revenge ran on1 sheer into the heart of the foe1 ,with her hundred fighters on deck and her ninety sick below2 ,for half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen1 ,and the little ,revenge ran on1 thro' the long sea-lane between4 ,thousands of their soldiers looked down from their decks and laugh'd1 ,thousands of their seamen made mock at the mad little craft ,running on and on1 till delay'd ,by their mountain-like ,san ,philip1 that1 of fifteen hundred tons1 ,and up-shadowing high above us with her yawning tiers of guns1 ,took the breath from our sails and we stay'd4 ,and while now the great ,san ,philip hung above us like a cloud ,whence the thunderbolt will fall ,long and loud1 ,four galleons drew away ,from the ,spanish fleet that day1 ,and two upon the larboard and two upon the starboard lay1 ,and the battle-thunder broke from them all4 ,and the sun went down1 and the stars came out1 far over the summer sea1 ,but never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three4 ,ship after ship1 the whole night long1 their high-built galleons came1 ,ship after ship1 the whole night long1 with her battle-thunder and flame2 ,ship after ship1 the whole night long1 drew back with her dead and her shame1 ,for some were sunk1 and many were shatter'd1 and so could fight us no more-- ,god of battles1 was ever a battle like this in the world before8 ,for he said3 ,fight on6 fight on6 ,tho' his vessel was all but a wreck2 ,and it chanced that1 when half of the summer night was gone1 ,with a grisly wound to be dressed1 he had left the deck1 ,but a bullet struck him that was dressing it suddenly dead1 ,and himself he was wounded again1 in the side and the head1 ,and he said3 ,fight on6 fight on6 ,and the night went down1 and the sun smiled out far over the summer sea1 ,and the ,spanish fleet1 with broken sides1 lay round us1 all in a ring2 ,but they dared not touch us again1 for they feared that we still could sting1 ,so they watched what the end would be4 ,and we had not fought them in vain1 ,but in perilous plight were we1 ,seeing forty of our poor hundred were slain1 ,and half of the rest of us maim'd for life ,in the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife4 ,and the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold1 ,and the pikes were all broken or bent1 and the powder was all of it spent2 ,and the masts and the rigging were lying over the side2 ,but ,sir ,richard cried in his ,english pride3 ,we have fought such a fight for a day and a night ,as may never be fought again6 ,we have won great glory1 my men6 ,and a day less or more ,at sea or ashore1 ,we die--does it matter when8 ,sink me the ship1 ,master ,gunner--sink her1 split her in twain6 ,fall into the hands of ,god1 not into the hands of ,spain6 ,and the gunner said3 ,ay1 ay1 but the seamen made reply3 ,we have children1 we have wives1 ,and the ,lord hath spared our lives4 ,we will make the ,spaniard promise1 if we yield1 to let us go2 ,we shall live to fight again1 and to strike another blow4 ,and the lion there lay dying1 and they yielded to the foe4 ,and the stately ,spanish men to their flagship bore him then1 ,where they laid him by the mast1 old ,sir ,richard caught at last4 ,and they praised him to his face with their courtly foreign grace2 ,but he rose upon their decks1 and he cried3 ,i have fought for ,queen and ,faith1 like a valiant man and true2 ,i have only done my duty1 as a man is bound to do2 ,with a joyful spirit1 ,i1 ,sir ,richard ,grenville1 die6 ,and he fell upon their decks1 and he died4 ,and they stared at the dead that had been so valiant and true1 ,and had holden the power and glory of ,spain so cheap1 ,that he dared her with one little ship and his ,english few2 ,was he devil or man8 ,he was devil for aught they knew1 ,but they sank his body with honor down into the deep1 ,and they mann'd the ,revenge with a swarthier alien crew1 ,and away she sail'd with her loss1 and long'd for her own2 ,when a wind from the lands they had ruin'd awoke from sleep1 ,and the water began to heave1 and the weather to moan1 ,and or ever that evening ended a great gale blew1 ,and a wave like the wave that is raised by an earthquake grew1 ,till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags1 ,and the whole sea plunged and fell on the shot-shatter'd navy of ,spain1 ,and the little ,revenge herself went down by the island crags1 ,to be lost evermore in the main4 ,,the ,,rider ,,of ,,the ,,black ,,horse ,,george ,,lippard ,it was the #gth of ,october1 #aggg4 ,horatio ,gates stood before his tent1 gazing steadfastly upon the two armies now arrayed in order of battle4 ,it was a clear1 bracing day1 mellow with the richness of autumn4 ,the sky was cloudless1 the foliage of the wood scarce tinged with purple and gold1 the buckwheat in yonder fields frostened into snowy ripeness4 ,but the tread of legions shook the ground1 from every bush shot the glimmer of the rifle barrel1 on every hillside blazed the sharpened bayonet4 ,gates was sad and thoughtful1 as he watched the evolutions of the two armies4 ,but all at once a smoke arose1 a thunder shook the ground and a chorus of shouts and groans yelled along the darkened air4 ,the play of death had begun4 ,the two flags1 this of the stars1 that of the red cross1 tossed amid the smoke of battle1 while the sky was clouded with leaden folds1 and the earth throbbed with the pulsations of a mighty heart4 ,suddenly1 ,gates and his officers were startled4 ,along the height on which they stood came a rider on a black horse1 rushing towards the distant battle4 ,there was something in the appearance of this horse and his rider that struck them with surprise4 ,look6 he draws his sword1 the sharp blade quivers through the air1 he points to the distant battle and lo6 he is gone2 gone through those clouds1 while his shout echoes over the plains4 ,wherever the fight is thickest1 there through intervals of cannon-smoke you may see riding madly forward that strange soldier1 mounted on his steed black as death4 ,look at him1 as with face red with ,british blood he waves his sword and shouts to his legions4 ,now you may see him fighting in that cannon's glare1 and the next moment he is away off yonder1 leading the forlorn hope up that steep cliff4 ,is it not a magnificent sight1 to see that strange soldier and that noble black horse dashing1 like a meteor1 down the long columns of battle8 ,let us look for a moment into those dense war-clouds4 ,over this thick hedge bursts a band of ,american militiamen1 their rude farmer-coats stained with blood1 while scattering their arms by the way1 they flee before that company of red-coat hirelings1 who come rushing forward1 their solid front of bayonets gleaming in the battle light4 ,at this moment of their flight1 a horse comes crashing over the plains4 ,the unknown rider reins his steed back on his haunches1 right in the path of a broad-shouldered militiaman4 ,now1 cowards6 advance another step and ,i'll strike you to the heart6 shouts the unknown1 extending a pistol in either hand4 ,what6 are you ,americans1 men1 and fly before ,british soldiers8 ,back again1 and face them once more1 or ,i myself will ride you down6 ,this appeal was not without its effect4 ,the militiaman turns2 his comrades1 as if by one impulse1 follow his example4 ,in one line1 but thirty men in all1 they confront thirty sharp bayonets4 ,the ,british advance4 ,now upon the rebels1 charge6 shouts the red-coat officer4 ,they spring forward at the same bound4 ,look6 their bayonets almost touch the muzzles of their rifles4 ,at this moment the voice of the unknown rider was heard3 ,now let them have it6 ,fire6 ,a sound is heard1 a smoke is seen1 twenty ,britons are down1 some writhing in death1 some crawling along the soil1 and some speechless as stone4 ,the remaining ten start back4 ,club your rifles and charge them home6 shouts the unknown4 ,that black horse springs forward1 followed by the militiamen4 ,then a confused conflict1 a cry for quarter1 and a vision of twenty farmers grouped around the rider of the black horse1 greeting him with cheers4 ,thus it was all the day long4 ,wherever that black horse and his rider went1 there followed victory4 ,at last1 towards the setting of the sun1 the crisis of the conflict came4 ,that fortress yonder1 on ,bemus ,heights1 must be won1 or the ,american cause is lost6 ,that cliff is too steep--that death is too certain4 ,the officers cannot persuade the men to advance4 ,the ,americans have lost the field4 ,even ,morgan1 that iron man among iron men1 leans on his rifle and despairs of the field4 ,but look yonder6 ,in this moment when all is dismay and horror1 here1 crashing on1 comes the black horse and his rider4 ,that rider bends upon his steed1 his frenzied face covered with sweat and dust and blood2 he lays his hand upon that bold rifleman's shoulder1 and as though living fire had been poured into his veins1 he seizes his rifle and starts toward the rock4 ,and now look6 now hold your breath1 as that black steed crashes up that steep cliff4 ,that steed quivers6 he totters6 he falls6 ,no6 ,no6 ,still on1 still up the cliff1 still on towards the fortress4 ,the rider turns his face and shouts1 ,come on1 men of ,quebec6 come on6 ,that call is needless4 ,already the bold riflemen are on the rock4 ,now1 ,british cannon1 pour your fires1 and lay your dead in tens and twenties on the rock4 ,now1 red-coat hirelings1 shout your battle-cry if you can6 ,for look6 there1 in the gate of the fortress1 as the smoke clears away1 stands the black horse and his rider4 ,that steed falls dead1 pierced by an hundred balls2 but his rider1 as the ,british cry for quarter1 lifts up his voice and shouts afar to ,horatio ,gates waiting yonder in his tent1 ,saratoga is won6 ,as that cry goes up to heaven1 he falls with his leg shattered by a cannon-ball4 ,who was the rider of the black horse8 ,do you not guess his name8 ,then bend down and gaze on that shattered limb1 and you will see that it bears the mark of a former wound4 ,that wound was received in the storming of ,quebec4 ,the rider of the black horse was ,benedict ,arnold4 ,,sailing ,,beyond ,,seas ,,jean ,,ingelow ,methought the stars were blinking bright1 ,and the old brig's sails unfurl'd2 ,i said3 ,i will sail to my love this night1 ,at the other side of the world4 ,i stepp'd aboard--we sail'd so fast-- ,the sun shot up from the bourn2 ,but a dove that perch'd upon the mast ,did mourn1 and mourn1 and mourn4 ,o fair dove6 ,o fond dove6 ,and dove with the white1 white breast-- ,let me alone1 the dream is my own1 ,and my heart is full of rest4 ,my true love fares on this great hill1 ,feeding his sheep for aye2 ,i look'd in his hut1 but all was still1 ,my love was gone away4 ,i went to gaze in the forest creek1 ,and the dove mourn'd on apace2 ,no flame did flash1 nor fair blue reek ,rose up to show me his place4 ,o last love6 ,o first love6 ,my love with the true1 true heart1 ,to think ,i have come to this your home1 ,and yet--we are apart6 ,my love6 ,he stood at my right hand1 ,his eyes were grave and sweet2 ,methought he said3 ,in this far land1 ,o1 is it thus we meet8 ,ah1 maid most dear1 ,i am not here2 ,i have no place1 no part1 ,no dwelling more by sea or shore1 ,but only in thy heart4 ,o fair dove6 ,o fond dove6 ,till night rose over the bourn1 ,the dove on the mast1 as we sail'd fast1 ,did mourn1 and mourn1 and mourn4 ,,the ,,sands ,,of ,,dee ,,charles ,,kingsley ,o ,mary go and call the cattle home1 ,and call the cattle home1 ,and call the cattle home1 ,across the sands o' ,dee6 ,the western wind was wild and dank wi' foam1 ,and all alone went she4 ,the creeping tide came up along the sand1 ,and o'er and o'er the sand1 ,and round and round the sand1 ,as far as eye could see2 ,the blinding mist came down and hid the land-- ,and never home came she4 ,oh1 is it weed1 or fish1 or floating hair-- ,a tress o' golden hair1 ,o' drowned maiden's hair ,above the nets at sea8 ,was never salmon yet that shone so fair1 ,among the stakes o' ,dee4 ,they rowed her in across the rolling foam1 ,the cruel1 crawling foam1 ,the cruel1 hungry foam1-- ,to her grave beside the sea2 ,but still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home1 ,across the sands o' ,dee4 ,,the ,,school ,,of ,,squeers#ac ,,charles ,,dickens ,the following advertisement appeared in the morning papers3 ,,education4--,at ,mr4 ,wackford ,squeers's ,academy1 ,dotheboys ,hall at the delightful village of ,dotheboys1 near ,greta ,bridge in ,yorkshire1 ,youth are boarded1 clothed1 booked1 furnished with pocket money1 provided with all necessaries1 instructed in all languages living and dead1 mathematics1 orthography1 geometry1 astronomy1 trigonometry1 the use of the globes1 algebra1 single-stick1 if required1 writing1 arithmetic1 fortification1 and every other branch of classical literature4 ,terms twenty guineas per annum4 ,no extras1 no vacations1 and diet unparalleled4 ,mr4 ,squeers is in town and attends daily1 from one till four1 at the ,saracen's ,head1 ,snow ,hill4 ,n4,b4 ,an able assistant wanted4 ,annual salary1 five pounds4 ,a ,master of ,arts would be preferred4 ,nicholas ,nickleby obtained the above situation1 having found that it was not absolutely necessary to have acquired the degree1 and arrived at the inn1 to join ,mr4 ,squeers1 at eight o'clock of a ,november morning4 ,he found that learned gentleman sitting at breakfast1 with five little boys in a row on the opposite seat4 ,mr4 ,squeers had before him a small measure of coffee1 a plate of hot toast1 and a cold round of beef2 but he was at that moment intent on preparing breakfast for the little boys4 ,this is two penn'orth of milk1 is it1 waiter8 said ,squeers1 looking down into a large blue mug1 and slanting it gently1 so as to get an accurate view of the quantity of liquid contained in it4 ,that's two penn'orth1 sir1 replied the waiter4 ,what a rare article milk is1 to be sure1 in ,london6 ,just fill that mug up with lukewarm water1 ,william1 will you8 ,to the very top1 sir8 ,why1 the milk will be drowned4 ,never you mind that4 ,serve it right for being so dear4 ,you ordered that thick bread and butter for three1 did you8 ,coming directly1 sir4 ,you needn't hurry yourself1 there's plenty of time4 ,conquer your passions1 boys1 and don't be eager after vittles4 ,as he uttered this moral precept1 ,mr4 ,squeers took a large bite out of the cold beef1 and recognized ,nicholas4 ,sit down1 ,mr4 ,nickleby4 ,here we are1 a-breakfasting1 you see6 ,oh6 that's the milk and water1 is it1 ,william8 ,very good2 don't forget the bread and butter presently4 ,ah6 here's richness6 ,think of the many beggars and orphans in the streets that would be glad of this1 little boys4 ,a shocking thing hunger is1 isn't it1 ,mr4 ,nickleby8 ,very shocking1 sir1 said ,nicholas4 ,when ,i say number one1 the boy on the left hand nearest the window may take a drink2 and when ,i say number two1 the boy next him will go in1 and so till we come to number five which is the last boy4 ,are you ready8 ,yes1 sir1 cried all the little boys4 ,that's right1 keep ready till ,i tell you to begin4 ,subdue your appetites1 boys1 and you've conquered human nature4 ,this is the way we inculcate strength of mind1 ,mr4 ,nickleby4 ,number one may take a drink4 ,number one seized the mug ravenously1 and had just drunk enough to make him wish for more1 when ,mr4 ,squeers gave the signal for number two1 who gave up at the same interesting moment to number three2 and the process was repeated until the milk and water terminated with number five4 ,and now1 said ,squeers1 dividing the bread for three into as many portions as there were children1 ,you had better look sharp with your breakfast1 for the horn will blow in a minute or two1 and then every boy leaves off4--,ah6 ,i thought it wouldn't be long2 put what you haven't had time to eat in here1 boys6 ,you'll want it on the road4 ,which they certainly did1 for the air was cool1 and the journey was long and tiresome4 ,however1 they arrived quite safely2 and ,nicholas1 weary1 retired to rest4 ,in the morning he was taken to the school-room accompanied by ,squeers4 ,there1 this is our shop1 ,nickleby4 ,it was a crowded scene4 ,a bare and dirty room1 with a couple of windows1 whereof a tenth part might be of glass1 the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper4 ,pale and haggard faces1 lank and bony figures1 little faces1 which should have been handsome1 darkened with the scowl of sullen1 dogged suffering4 ,there was childhood with the light of its eye quenched1 its beauty gone and its helplessness alone remaining--truly an incipient ,hell4 ,a few minutes having elapsed1 ,squeers called up the first class4 ,this is the first class in ,english1 spelling1 and philosophy1 ,nickleby4 ,we'll get up a ,latin one1 and hand that over to you4 ,now then1 where's the first boy8 ,please1 sir1 he's cleaning the back parlor window4 ,so he is1 to be sure4 ,we go upon the practical mode of teaching1 ,nickleby1 the regular educational system4 ,c-l-e-a-n1 clean4 ,verb active4 ,to make bright1 to scour4 ,w-i-n1 win1 d-e-r1 der1 winder4 ,a casement4 ,when a boy knows this out of his book he goes and does it4 ,it's just the same principle as the use of the globes4 ,where's the second boy8 ,please1 sir1 he's weeding the garden4 ,to be sure1 so he is4 ,b-o-t1 bot1 t-i-n1 tin1 bottin1 n-e-y1 ney1 bottinney4 ,noun substantive4 ,a knowledge of plants4 ,when a boy learns that bottinney is a knowledge of plants1 he goes and knows 'em4 ,that's our system1 ,nickleby4 ,third boy1 what's a horse8 ,a beast1 sir4 ,so it is4 ,a horse is a quadruped1 and quadruped is ,latin for beast1 as everybody that's gone through the grammar knows1 or else where's the use of havin' grammars at all8 ,as you're perfect in that1 go and look after my horse1 and rub him down well or ,i'll rub you down4 ,the rest of the class go and draw water up1 till somebody tells you to leave off1 for it's washing day to-morrow and they want the coppers filled4 ,so saying1 he dismissed his first class to their experiments in practical philosophy4 ,it was ,squeers's custom to call the boys together1 and make a sort of report1 after every half-yearly visit to the metropolis4 ,they were therefore soon recalled from the house1 window1 garden1 stable1 and cow yard1 and ,mr4 ,squeers entered the room4 ,a deathlike silence immediately prevailed4 ,boys1 ,i've been to ,london1 and have returned to my family and you as strong and as well as ever4 ,according to half-yearly custom1 the boys gave three feeble cheers at this refreshing intelligence4 ,such cheers6 ,sighs of extra strength with the chill on4 ,i have seen the parents of some boys1 and they're so glad to hear how their sons are getting on1 that there's no prospect at all of their going away1 which of course is a very pleasant thing to reflect upon for all parties4 ,but ,i've had disappointments to contend against4 ,bolder's father was two pound ten short4 ,where is ,bolder8 ,here he is1 please1 sir4 ,come here1 ,bolder1 said ,squeers4 ,an unhealthy boy with warts all over his hands1 stepped from his place to the ,master's desk1 and raised his eyes imploringly to ,squeers's face4 ,bolder1 if your father thinks that because--why1 what's this1 sir8 ,as ,squeers spoke1 he caught up the boy's hand by the cuff of his jacket1 and surveyed the warts with an edifying aspect of horror and disgust4 ,what do you call this1 sir8 ,i can't help it1 indeed1 sir4 ,they will come2 it's the dirty work1 ,i think1 sir--at least ,i don't know what it is1 sir1 but it's not my fault4 ,bolder1 you're an incorrigible young scoundrel1 and as the last thrashing did you no good1 we'll see what another will do towards beating it out of you4 ,with this1 and wholly disregarding a piteous cry for mercy1 ,mr4 ,squeers fell upon the boy and caned him soundly2 not leaving off1 indeed1 until his arm was tired out4 ,there1 rub away as hard as you like1 you won't rub that off in a hurry4 ,now let us see4 ,a letter for ,cobbey4 ,stand up1 ,cobbey4 ,oh6 ,cobbey's grandmother is dead1 and his uncle ,john has took to drinking1 which is all the news his sister sends1 except eighteen pence1 which will just pay for that broken square of glass4 ,mrs4 ,squeers1 my dear1 will you take the money8 ,graymarsh1 he's the next4 ,stand up1 ,graymarsh4 ,graymarsh's aunt is very glad to hear he's so well and happy1 and sends her respectful compliments to ,mrs4 ,squeers and thinks she must be an angel4 ,she likewise thinks that ,mr4 ,squeers is too good for this world1 but hopes he may long be spared to carry on the business4 ,would have sent the two pairs of stockings as desired1 but is short of money1 so forwards a tract instead1 and hopes that ,graymarsh will put his trust in ,providence4 ,hopes1 above all1 that he will study in everything to please ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,squeers1 and look upon them as his only friends2 and that he will love master ,squeers1 and not object to sleeping five in a bed1 which no ,christian should4 ,ah6 a delightful letter4 ,very affecting indeed4 ,mobbs6--,mobbs's mother-in-law took to her bed on hearing that he wouldn't eat fat1 and has been very ill ever since4 ,she wishes to know1 by an early post1 where he expects to go to if he quarrels with his vittles2 and with what feelings he could turn up his nose at the cow's liver broth1 after his good master had asked a blessing on it4 ,this was told her in the ,london newspapers--not by ,mr4 ,squeers1 for he's too kind and good to set anybody against anybody4 ,she is sorry to find he is discontented1 which is sinful and horrid1 and hopes ,mr4 ,squeers will flog him into a happier state of mind4 ,with which view she has also stopped his half penny a week pocket-money1 and given a double-bladed knife with a cork-screw in it to the missionaries1 which she had bought on purpose for him4 ,a sulky state of feeling won't do4 ,cheerfulness and contentment must be kept up4 ,mobbs1 come to me6 ,mobbs moved slowly towards the desk1 rubbing his eyes in anticipation of good cause for doing so2 and he soon afterwards retired1 with as good cause as a boy need have4 ,this business dispatched1 a few slovenly lessons were performed1 and ,squeers retired to his fireside1 leaving ,nicholas to take care of the boys in the school-room which was very cold1 and where a meal of bread was served out shortly after dark4 ,there was a small stove at that corner of the room which was nearest the master's desk1 and by it ,nicholas sat down1 depressed and self-degraded4 ,as he was absorbed in his meditations1 he all at once encountered the upturned face of ,smike1 who was on his knees before the stove1 picking a few stray cinders from the hearth and planting them on the fire4 ,he had paused to steal a look at ,nicholas1 and when he saw that he was observed1 shrank back1 as if expecting a blow4 ,you need not fear me4 ,are you cold8 ,n-n-o4 ,you are shivering4 ,i'm not cold4 ,i'm used to it4 ,there was such an obvious fear of giving offense in his manner1 and he was such a timid1 broken-spirited creature1 that ,nicholas could not help exclaiming1 ,poor fellow6 ,oh dear1 oh dear6 my heart will break4 ,it will1 it will6 said ,smike4 ,hush6 ,be a man2 you are nearly one by years4 ,god help you6 ,by years6 ,oh dear1 dear1 how many of them6 ,how many of them since ,i was a little child1 younger than any that are here now6 ,where are they all8 ,of whom do you speak8 ,tell me4 ,my friends1 myself--my--oh6 what sufferings mine have been6 ,there is always hope4 ,no1 no2 none for me4 ,do you remember the boy that died here8 ,i was not here1 you know4 ,why1 ,i was with him at night1 and when it was all silent1 he cried no more for friends he wished to come and sit with him1 but began to see faces round his bed that came from home4 ,he said they smiled1 and talked to him2 and he died at last lifting his head to kiss them4 ,do you hear8 ,yes1 yes1 rejoined ,nicholas4 ,what faces will smile on me when ,i die8 ,who will talk to me in those long nights8 ,they cannot come from home2 they would frighten me if they did1 for ,i shouldn't know them4 ,pain and fear1 pain and fear for me1 alive or dead4 ,no hope1 no hope6 ,the bell rang to bed2 and the boy1 subsiding at the sound into his usual listless state1 crept away as if anxious to avoid notice4 ,it was with a heavy heart that ,nicholas soon afterwards--no1 not retired1 there was no retirement there--followed to his dirty and crowded dormitory4 ,,footnote3 #ac ,adapted by ,e4 ,p4 ,trueblood from ,nicholas ,nickleby4 ,,the ,,secret ,,of ,,death ,,edwin ,,arnold ,she is dead6 they said to him2 come away2 ,kiss her and leave her1--thy love is clay6 ,they smoothed her tresses of dark-brown hair2 ,on her forehead of stone they laid it fair2 ,over her eyes1 that gazed too much1 ,they drew the lids with a gentle touch2 ,with a tender touch they closed up well ,the sweet thin lips that had secrets to tell2 ,about her brows and beautiful face ,they tied her veil and her marriage lace1 ,and drew on her feet her white silk shoes-- ,which were the whitest no eye could choose-- ,and over her bosom they crossed her hands4 ,come away6 they said2 ,god understands4 ,and there was silence1 and nothing there ,but silence1 and scents of eglantere1 ,and jasmine1 and roses1 and rosemary2 ,and they said1 ,as a lady should lie1 lies she4 ,and they held their breath till they left the room1 ,with a shudder1 to glance at its stillness and gloom4 ,but he who loved her too well to dread ,the sweet1 the stately1 the beautiful dead1-- ,he lit his lamp1 and took the key ,and turned it1--alone again1--he and she4 ,he and she2 but she would not speak1 ,though he kissed1 in the old place1 the quiet cheek4 ,he and she2 yet she would not smile1 ,though he called her the name she loved erewhile4 ,he and she2 still she did not move ,to any one passionate whisper of love4 ,then he said3 ,cold lips and breasts without breath1 ,is there no voice1 no language of death8 ,dumb to the ear and still to the sense1 ,but to heart and to soul distinct1 intense8 ,see now2 ,i will listen with soul1 not ear2 ,what was the secret of dying1 dear8 ,was it the infinite wonder of all ,that you ever could let life's flower fall8 ,or was it a greater marvel to feel ,the perfect calm o'er the agony steal8 ,was the miracle greater to find how deep ,beyond all dreams sank downward that sleep8 ,did life roll back its records1 dear1 ,and show1 as they say it does1 past things clear8 ,and was it the innermost heart of the bliss ,to find out so1 what a wisdom love is8 ,oh1 perfect dead6 ,oh1 dead most dear1 ,i hold the breath of my soul to hear6 ,i listen as deep as to horrible hell1 ,as high as to heaven1 and you do not tell4 ,there must be pleasure in dying1 sweet1 ,to make you so placid from head to feet6 ,i would tell you1 darling1 if ,i were dead1 ,and 'twere your hot tears upon my brow shed1-- ,i would say1 though the ,angel of ,death had laid ,his sword on my lips to keep it unsaid4 ,you should not ask vainly1 with streaming eyes1 ,which of all deaths was the chiefest surprise1 ,the very strangest and suddenest thing ,of all the surprises that dying must bring4 ,ah1 foolish world6 ,oh1 most kind dead6 ,though he told me1 who will believe it was said8 ,who will believe that he heard her say1 ,with the sweet1 soft voice1 in the dear old way3 ,the utmost wonder is this1--,i hear ,and see you1 and love you1 and kiss you1 dear2 ,and am your angel1 who was your bride1 ,and know that1 though dead1 ,i have never died4 ,,shamus ,o',,brien ,a ,,tale ,,of '#ih1 ,,as ,,related ,,by ,,an ,,irish ,,peasant ,,joseph ,,sheridan ,,le ,,fanu ,jist after the war1 in the year '#ih1 ,as soon as the ,boys wor all scattered and bate1 ',twas the custom1 whenever a peasant was got1 ,to hang him by trial--barrin' such as was shot4 ,an' the bravest an' hardiest ,boy iv them all ,was ,shamus ,o',brien1 from the town iv ,glingall4 ,an' it's he was the ,boy that was hard to be caught1 ,an' it's often he run1 an' it's often he fought2 ,an' it's many the one can remember right well ,the quare things he did3 an' it's oft ,i heerd tell ,how he frightened the magistrates in ,chirbally1 ,an' 'scaped through the sojers in ,aherlow valley2 ,how he leathered the yeoman1 himself agin four1 ,an' stretched the two strongest on ould ,golteemore4 ,but the fox must sleep sometimes1 the wild deer must rest1 ,an' treachery prey on the blood iv the best2 ,afther many a brave action of power and pride1 ,an' many a hard night on the mountain's bleak side1 ,an' a thousand great dangers and toils overpast1 ,in the darkness of night he was taken at last4 ,now1 ,shamus1 look back on the beautiful moon1 ,for the door of the prison must close on you soon4 ,farewell to the forest1 farewell to the hill1 ,an' farewell to the friends that will think of you still4 ,farewell to the pathern1 the hurlin' an' wake1 ,and farewell to the girl that would die for your sake6 ,an' twelve sojers brought him to ,maryborough jail1 ,an' the turnkey resaved him1 refusin' all bail4 ,well1 as soon as a few weeks were over and gone1 ,the terrible day iv the thrial kem on1 ,there was sich a crowd there was scarce room to stand1 ,an' sojers on guard1 an' ,dragoons sword-in-hand2 ,an' the courthouse so full that the people were bothered1 ,an' attorneys an' criers on the point iv bein' smothered2 ,an' counsellors almost gev over for dead1 ,an' the jury sittin' up in their box overhead2 ,an' the judge settled out so detarmined an' big ,with his gown on his back1 and an illegant wig2 ,an' silence was called1 an' the minute 'twas said ,the court was as still as the heart of the dead1 ,an' they heard but the openin' of one prison lock1 ,an' ,shamus ,o',brien kem into the dock4 ,for one minute he turned his eye round on the throng1 ,an' he looked at the bars so firm and so strong1 ,an' he saw that he had not a hope nor a friend1 ,a chance to escape1 nor a word to defend2 ,an' he folded his arms as he stood there alone1 ,as calm and as cold as a statue of stone2 ,and they read a big writin'1 a yard long at laste1 ,an' ,jim didn't understand it nor mind it a taste1 ,an' the judge took a big pinch iv snuff1 and he says1 ,are you guilty or not1 ,jim ,o',brien1 av you plase8 ,an' all held their breath in the silence of dhread1 ,an' ,shamus ,o',brien made answer and said3 ,my lord1 if you ask me1 if in my lifetime ,i thought any treason1 or did any crime ,that should call to my cheek1 as ,i stand alone here1 ,the hot blush of shame1 or the coldness of fear1 ,though ,i stood by the grave to receive my death-blow ,before ,god and the world ,i would answer you1 ,no6 ,but if you would ask me1 as ,i think it like1 ,if in the ,rebellion ,i carried a pike1 ,an' fought for ould ,ireland from the first to the close1 ,an' shed the heart's blood of her bitterest foes1 ,i answer you1 ,yes2 and ,i tell you again1 ,though ,i stand here to perish1 it's my glory that then ,in her cause ,i was willin' my veins should run dhry1 ,an' that now for her sake ,i am ready to die4 ,then the silence was great1 and the jury smiled bright1 ,an' the judge wasn't sorry the job was made light2 ,by my sowl1 it's himself was the crabbed ould chap6 ,in a twinklin' he pulled on his ugly black cap4 ,then ,shamus's mother1 in the crowd standin' by1 ,called out to the judge with a pitiful cry3 ,o judge6 darlin'1 don't1 ,o1 don't say the word6 ,the crather is young1 have mercy1 my lord2 ,he was foolish1 he didn't know what he was doin'2 ,you don't know him1 my lord--,o1 don't give him to ruin6 ,he's the kindliest crathur1 the tindherest-hearted2 ,don't part us forever1 we that's so long parted6 ,judge mavourneen1 forgive him1 forgive him1 my lord1 ,an' ,god will forgive you--,o1 don't say the word6 ,that was the first minute ,o',brien was shaken1 ,when he saw that he was not quite forgot or forsaken2 ,an' down his pale cheeks1 at the word of his mother1 ,the big tears wor runnin' fast1 one afther th' other2 ,an' two or three times he endeavored to spake1 ,but the sthrong manly voice used to falther and break2 ,but at last1 by the strength of his high-mountin' pride1 ,he conquered and masthered his grief's swelling tide2 ,an'1 says he1 mother1 darlin'1 don't break your poor heart1 ,for1 sooner or later1 the dearest must part2 ,and ,god knows it's better than wand'ring in fear ,on the bleak1 trackless mountain1 among the wild deer1 ,to lie in the grave1 where the head1 heart1 and breast1 ,from labor and sorrow1 forever shall rest4 ,then1 mother1 my darlin'1 don't cry any more1 ,don't make me seem broken1 in this my last hour2 ,for ,i wish1 when my head's lyin' undher the raven1 ,no thrue man can say that ,i died like a craven6 ,then toward the ,judge ,shamus bent down his head1 ,an' that minute the solemn death-sentence was said4 ,the mornin' was bright1 an' the mists rose on high1 ,an' the lark whistled merrily in the clear sky2 ,but why are the men standin' idle so late8 ,an' why do the crowds gather fast in the strate8 ,what come they to talk of8 what come they to see8 ,an' why does the long rope hang from the cross-tree8 ,o ,shamus ,o',brien6 pray fervent and fast1 ,may the saints take your soul1 for this day is your last2 ,pray fast an' pray sthrong1 for the moment is nigh1 ,when1 sthrong1 proud1 an' great as you are1 you must die6-- ,at last they threw open the big prison-gate1 ,an' out came the sheriffs and sojers in state1 ,an' a cart in the middle an' ,shamus was in it1 ,not paler1 but prouder than ever1 that minute4 ,an' as soon as the people saw ,shamus ,o',brien1 ,wid prayin' and blessin'1 and all the girls cryin'1 ,a wild1 wailin' sound kem on by degrees1 ,like the sound of the lonesome wind blowin' through trees4 ,on1 on to the gallows the sheriffs are gone1 ,an' the cart an' the sojers go steadily on2 ,an' at every side swellin' around of the cart1 ,a wild1 sorrowful sound1 that id open your heart4 ,now under the gallows the cart takes its stand1 ,an' the hangman gets up with the rope in his hand2 ,an' the priest1 havin' blest him1 goes down on the ground1 ,an' ,shamus ,o',brien throws one last look round4 ,then the hangman dhrew near1 an' the people grew still1 ,young faces turned sickly1 and warm hearts turned chill2 ,an' the rope bein' ready1 his neck was made bare1 ,for the grip of the life-strangling cord to prepare2 ,an' the good priest has left him1 havin' said his last prayer4 ,but the good priest did more1 for his hands he unbound1 ,an' with one daring spring ,jim has leaped on the ground2 ,bang6 bang6 go the carbines1 and clash go the sabers2 ,he's not down6 he's alive6 now stand to him1 neighbors6 ,through the smoke and the horses he's into the crowd1-- ,by the heavens1 he's free6--than thunder more loud1 ,by one shout from the people the heavens were shaken-- ,one shout that the dead of the world might awaken4 ,the sojers ran this way1 the sheriffs ran that1 ,an' ,father ,malone lost his new ,sunday hat2 ,to-night he'll be sleepin' in ,aherloe ,glin1 ,an' the divil's in the dice if you catch him ag'in4 ,your swords they may glitter1 your carbines go bang1 ,but if you want hangin'1 it's yourselves you must hang4 ,,my ,,ships#ad ,,ella ,,wheeler ,,wilcox ,if all the ships ,i have at sea-- ,should come a-sailing home to me1 ,ah well6 the harbor could not hold ,so many ships as there would be1 ,if all my ships came home to me4 ,if half my ships now out at sea ,should come a-sailing home to me1 ,ah well6 ,i should have wealth as great ,as any king that sits in state1 ,so rich the treasure there would be ,in half my ships now out at sea4 ,if but one ship ,i have at sea ,should come a-sailing home to me1 ,ah well6 the storm clouds then might frown1 ,for if the others all went down1 ,still rich and glad and proud ,i'd be1 ,if that one ship came home to me4 ,if that one ship went down at sea1 ,and all the others came to me1 ,weighed down with gems and wealth untold1 ,of riches1 glory1 honor1 gold1 ,the poorest soul on earth ,i'd be1 ,if that one ship came not to me4 ,oh1 skies1 be calm1 oh1 winds1 blow free6 ,blow all my ships safe home to me6 ,but if thou sendest some awrack1 ,to never more come sailing back1 ,send any--all that skim the sea1 ,but send my love ship back to me4 ,,footnote3 #ad ,by permission of the author4 ,,the ,,soldier',s ,,reprieve ,r4 ,d4 ,c4 ,,robbins ,i thought1 ,mr4 ,allan1 when ,i gave my ,bennie to his country1 that not a father in all this broad land made so precious a gift1--no1 not one4 ,the dear boy only slept a minute1 just one little minute1 at his post2 ,i know that was all1 for ,bennie never dozed over a duty4 ,how prompt and reliable he was6 ,i know he only fell asleep one little second2--he was so young1 and not strong1 that boy of mine6 ,why1 he was as tall as ,i1 and only eighteen6 and now they shoot him because he was found asleep when doing sentinel duty6 ,twenty-four hours1 the telegram said1--only twenty-four hours4 ,where is ,bennie now8 ,we will hope with his heavenly ,father1 said ,mr4 ,allan1 soothingly4 ,yes1 yes2 let us hope2 ,god is very merciful6 ',i should be ashamed1 father6' ,bennie said1 'when ,i am a man1 to think ,i never used this great right arm1'--and he held it out so proudly before me1--'for my country1 when it needed it6 ,palsy it rather than keep it at the plow6' ',go then1 go1 my boy1' ,i said1 'and ,god keep you6' ,god has kept him1 ,i think1 ,mr4 ,allan6 and the farmer repeated these last words slowly1 as if1 in spite of his reason1 his heart doubted them4 ,like the apple of ,his eye1 ,mr4 ,owen1 doubt it not6 ,blossom sat near them listening1 with blanched cheek4 ,she had not shed a tear4 ,her anxiety had been so concealed that no one had noticed it4 ,she had occupied herself mechanically in the household cares4 ,now she answered a gentle tap at the kitchen door1 opening it to receive from a neighbor's hand a letter4 ,it is from him1 was all she said4 ,it was like a message from the dead6 ,mr4 ,owen took the letter1 but could not break the envelope1 on account of his trembling fingers1 and held it toward ,mr4 ,allan1 with the helplessness of a child4 ,the minister opened it1 and read as follows3 ,,dear ,,father3--,when this reaches you1 ,i shall be in eternity4 ,at first1 it seemed awful to me2 but ,i have thought about it so much now1 that it has no terror4 ,they say they will not bind me1 nor blind me2 but that ,i may meet my death like a man4 ,i thought1 father1 it might have been on the battle-field1 for my country1 and that1 when ,i fell1 it would be fighting gloriously2 but to be shot down like a dog for nearly betraying it1--to die for neglect of duty6 ,o father1 ,i wonder the very thought does not kill me6 ,but ,i shall not disgrace you4 ,i am going to write you all about it2 and when ,i am gone1 you may tell my comrades4 ,i cannot now4 ,you know ,i promised ,jemmie ,carr's mother ,i would look after her boy2 and1 when he fell sick1 ,i did all ,i could for him4 ,he was not strong when he was ordered back into the ranks1 and the day before that night1 ,i carried all his luggage1 besides my own1 on our march4 ,toward night we went in on double-quick1 and though the luggage began to feel very heavy1 everybody else was tired too2 and as for ,jemmie1 if ,i had not lent him an arm now and then1 he would have dropped by the way4 ,i was all tired out when we came into camp1 and then it was ,jemmie's turn to be sentry1 and ,i would take his place2 but ,i was too tired1 father4 ,i could not have kept awake if a gun had been pointed at my head2 but ,i did not know it until--well1 until it was too late4 ,god be thanked6 interrupted ,mr4 ,owen1 reverently4 ,i knew ,bennie was not the boy to sleep carelessly at his post4 ,they tell me to-day that ,i have a short reprieve1--given to me by circumstances1--'time to write to you1' our good ,colonel says4 ,forgive him1 father1 he only does his duty2 he would gladly save me if he could2 and do not lay my death up against ,jemmie4 ,the poor boy is broken-hearted1 and does nothing but beg and entreat them to let him die in my stead4 ,i can't bear to think of mother and ,blossom4 ,comfort them1 father6 ,tell them ,i die as a brave boy should1 and that1 when the war is over1 they will not be ashamed of me1 as they must be now4 ,god help me3 it is very hard to bear6 ,good-by1 father6 ,god seems near and dear to me2 not at all as if ,he wished me to perish forever1 but as if ,he felt sorry for ,his poor1 sinful1 broken-hearted child1 and would take me to be with ,him and my ,saviour in a better--better life4 ,a deep sigh burst from ,mr4 ,owen's heart4 ,amen1 he said solemnly1--,amen4 ,to-night1 in the early twilight1 ,i shall see the cows all coming home from pasture1 and precious little ,blossom standing on the back stoop1 waiting for me--but ,i shall never1 never come6 ,god bless you all6 ,forgive your poor ,bennie4 ,late that night the door of the back stoop opened softly1 and a little figure glided out1 and down the footpath that led to the road by the mill4 ,she seemed rather flying than walking1 turning her head neither to the right nor to the left1 looking only now and then to ,heaven1 and folding her hands as if in prayer4 ,two hours later1 the same young girl stood at the ,mill ,depot1 watching the coming of the night train2 and the conductor1 as he reached down to lift her into the car1 wondered at the tear-stained face that was upturned toward the dim lantern he held in his hand4 ,a few questions and ready answers told him all2 and no father could have cared more tenderly for his only child than he for our little ,blossom4 ,she was on her way to ,washington1 to ask ,president ,lincoln for her brother's life4 ,she had stolen away1 leaving only a note to tell her father where and why she had gone4 ,she had brought ,bennie's letter with her2 no good1 kind heart1 like the ,president's1 could refuse to be melted by it4 ,the next morning they reached ,new ,york1 and the conductor hurried her on to ,washington4 ,every minute1 now1 might be the means of saving her brother's life4 ,and so1 in an incredibly short time1 ,blossom reached the ,capital1 and hastened immediately to the ,white ,house4 ,the ,president had but just seated himself to his morning's task1 of overlooking and signing important papers1 when1 without one word of announcement1 the door softly opened1 and ,blossom1 with downcast eyes1 and folded hands1 stood before him4 ,well1 my child1 he said1 in his pleasant1 cheerful tones1 what do you want so bright and early in the morning8 ,bennie's life1 please1 sir1 faltered ,blossom4 ,bennie8 ,who is ,bennie8 ,my brother1 sir4 ,they are going to shoot him for sleeping at his post4 ,oh1 yes1 and ,mr4 ,lincoln ran his eye over the papers before him4 ,i remember6 ,it was a fatal sleep4 ,you see1 child1 it was at a time of special danger4 ,thousands of lives might have been lost for his culpable negligence4 ,so my father said1 replied ,blossom1 gravely2 but poor ,bennie was so tired1 sir1 and ,jemmie so weak4 ,he did the work of two1 sir1 and it was ,jemmie's night1 not his2 but ,jemmie was too tired1 and ,bennie never thought about himself1 that he was tired1 too4 ,what is this you say1 child8 ,come here2 ,i do not understand1 and the kind man caught eagerly1 as ever1 at what seemed to be a justification of an offense4 ,blossom went to him2 he put his hand tenderly on her shoulder1 and turned up the pale1 anxious face toward his4 ,how tall he seemed1 and he was ,president of the ,united ,states1 too6 ,a dim thought of this kind passed for a moment through ,blossom's mind2 but she told her simple and straightforward story1 and handed ,mr4 ,lincoln ,bennie's letter to read4 ,he read it carefully2 then1 taking up his pen1 wrote a few hasty lines1 and rang his bell4 ,blossom heard this order given3 ,,send ,,this ,,dispatch ,,at ,,once4 ,the ,president then turned to the girl and said3 ,go home1 my child1 and tell that father of yours1 who could approve his country's sentence1 even when it took the life of a child like that1 that ,abraham ,lincoln thinks the life far too precious to be lost4 ,go back1 or--wait until to-morrow2 ,bennie will need a change after he has so bravely faced death2 he shall go with you4 ,god bless you1 sir1 said ,blossom2 and who shall doubt that ,god heard and registered the request8 ,two days after this interview1 the young soldier came to the ,white ,house with his little sister4 ,he was called into the ,president's private room1 and a strap fastened upon the shoulder4 ,mr4 ,lincoln then said3 ,the soldier that could carry a sick comrade's baggage1 and die for the act so uncomplainingly1 deserves well of his country4 ,then ,bennie and ,blossom took their way to the ,green ,mountain home4 ,a crowd gathered at the ,mill ,depot to welcome them back2 and as ,farmer ,owen's hand grasped that of his boy1 tears flowed down his cheeks1 and he was heard to say fervently1 ,,the ,,lord ,,be ,,praised6 ,,the ,,song#ae ,,walter ,,scott ,soldier1 rest6 thy warfare o'er1 ,sleep the sleep that knows not breaking2 ,dream of battled fields no more1 ,days of danger1 nights of waking4 ,in our isle's enchanted hall1 ,hands unseen thy couch are strewing1 ,fairy strains of music fall1 ,every sense in slumber dewing4 ,soldier1 rest6 thy warfare o'er1 ,dream of fighting fields no more2 ,sleep the sleep that knows not breaking1 ,morn of toil1 nor night of waking4 ,huntsman1 rest6 thy chase is done1 ,while our slumbrous spells assail ye1 ,dream not1 with the rising sun1 ,bugles here shall sound reveille2 ,sleep6 the deer is in his den2 ,sleep6 thy hounds are by thee lying2 ,sleep6 nor dream in yonder glen ,how thy gallant steed lay dying4 ,huntsman1 rest6 thy chase is done2 ,think not of the rising sun1 ,for at dawning to assail ye ,here no bugles sound reveille4 ,,footnote3 #ae ,from ,lady of the ,lake4 ,,the ,,stirrup ,,cup#af ,,john ,,hay ,my short and happy day is done2 ,the long and lonely night comes on ,and at my door the pale horse stands ,to carry me to distant lands4 ,his whinny shrill1 his pawing hoof1 ,sounds dreadful as a gathering storm2 ,and ,i must leave this sheltering roof ,and joys of life so soft and warm4 ,tender and warm the joys of life-- ,good friends1 the faithful and the true2 ,my rosy children and my wife1 ,so sweet to kiss1 so fair to view4 ,so sweet to kiss1 so fair to view1 ,the night comes on1 the lights burn blue2 ,and at my door the pale horse stands ,to bear me forth to unknown lands4 ,,footnote3 #af ,by permission of ,mrs4 ,hay4 ,,the ,,swan-,,song ,,katherine ,r4 ,,brooks ,the great old-fashioned clock struck twelve1 but as yet not one of the boys had stirred4 ,all were listening too intently to what ,carl von ,weber was saying to notice the time4 ,around one of the grand pianos a group of boys was gathered4 ,perched on the top of it was a bright1 merry-looking boy of fourteen4 ,by his side sat a pale1 delicate little fellow1 with a pair of soft1 dark eyes1 which were fixed in eager attention upon ,carl's face4 ,below1 and leaning carelessly upon the piano1 was ,raoul von ,falkenstein1 a dark1 handsome boy of fifteen4 ,pshaw6 he exclaimed1 scornfully1 after ,carl had finished4 ,is that all8 just for a few paltry thalers and a beggarly violin1 to work myself to death8 ,no6 ,i don't think ,i shall trouble myself about it4 ,oh1 ,raoul6 cried ,franz1 the little fellow who sat by ,carl1 you forget that it is to be the most beautiful violin in ,germany1 and to be given to us by the ,empress herself4 ,and the two hundred thalers--just think of that6 and ,franz's dark eyes grew bright to think what he could do with them4 ,really1 returned ,raoul1 insolently1 you don't mean to say that you are going to try6 ,why1 the last time you played you broke down entirely6 ,the color mounted into ,franz's face1 and the tears came into his eyes2 and ,carl cried out1 angrily3 ,for shame6 you know very well that it was only fright that made ,franz fail4 ,don't mind him1 he said1 putting his arm around his friend's neck1 he is only hateful1 as he always is4 ,let us go and see who is to be chosen for the concert4 ,come1 ,franz6 ,no1 ,carl1 said his friend1 quietly2 ,i would rather stay here4 ,you go and find out1 and then come and tell me4 ,the ,empress once a year gave a prize to the school1 but this year it was to be finer than usual1 and her ,majesty had sent to ,herr ,bach and requested him to choose five of his best boys1 each of whom was to compose a piece of his own4 ,no one was to see it until the end of three weeks1 when they were to play it at a grand concert1 which the imperial family were to attend with the whole court4 ,franz was very anxious to be chosen1 for he wanted the prize very much4 ,he thought how pleased the mother would be1 and he thought how hard she worked to give her little boy a musical education1 and how many comforts the thalers would buy4 ,oh1 he would work hard for it4 ,the dear mother would be so surprised4 ,and he fell into a brown study1 from which he was awakened by feeling a pair of strong arms around him1 and being frantically whirled around the room1 while a voice shouted in his ear3 ,we've got it6 ,we're chosen--you1 ,gottfried1 ,johann1 old hateful ,raoul1 and ,i6 ,the boys worked very hard1 for there was only a short time given them4 ,franz put his whole soul into his composition1 and made himself almost sick over it4 ,raoul went about declaring1 in his usual contemptuous manner1 that he did not intend to kill himself over it1 but secretly he worked with great industry4 ,one lovely moonlight night1 as he sat by his window composing1 for the moon was so bright he could see very well1 he impatiently flung his pen down and muttered1 ,there is no use2 ,i can never do it2 this will never do6 and began angrily to tear up one of the music sheets1 when suddenly he stopped and raised his head and listened intently4 ,such a lovely melody1 so soft and clear1 rising and falling in the sweetest cadences1 now growing louder and louder in a wild1 passionate crescendo1 and then dying slowly away6 ,for a moment1 the boy remained silent2 then1 suddenly springing to his feet1 he cried3 ,it is ,franz6 ,i know it1 for no one but he could write anything so beautiful4 ,but it shall be mine1 for it is the piece that will gain the prize6 ,ah1 ,franz1 ,i play before you1 and what ,i play shall be-- ,he stopped1 and the moonlight streaming in at the window glanced across the room1 and revealed a look of half triumph1 half shame on his dark1 haughty face4 ,why had he stopped8 ,perhaps his guardian angel stood behind him1 warning him against what he was about to do4 ,for a moment1 a fierce struggle seemed to take possession of the boy1 between his good and his evil spirit4 ,but1 alas6 the evil conquered1 and1 sitting down1 he wrote off what he had heard1 aided by his wonderful memory2 and1 after an hour1 he threw down the piece1 finished4 ,then1 with an exulting smile1 he cried1 ,the prize is mine6 and1 throwing himself on the bed1 he fell into a troubled sleep4 ,the time had come at last for the great concert1 and the boys were so excited they could hardly keep still2 even ,franz1 whose cheeks glowed with a brilliant hectic flush1 and whose eyes were strangely bright4 ,the hall was crowded4 ,the imperial family was there1 together with the whole court4 ,the concert began with an overture from the orchestra4 ,then came ,fraulein1 the prima donna of the ,imperial ,opera1 and then the boys4 ,carl came first1 and played a brilliant1 sparkling little piece1 and was loudly applauded2 next ,gottfried and ,johann1 and then ,raoul4 ,when he stepped out upon the platform1 his handsome face and fine form seemed to make an impression on the audience1 for they remained perfectly silent4 ,raoul commenced4 ,at first ,franz paid no attention to him1 then suddenly he started4 ,the melody flowed on2 louder and louder1 clearer and clearer it rose4 ,franz stood motionless1 listening in strained1 fixed attention1 until at last1 overcome with grief and astonishment1 he sank upon the floor and cried out piteously1 with tears streaming down his face3 ,oh1 ,raoul6 ,raoul6 how could you1 could you do it--my own little piece that ,i loved so much8 ,oh1 mother6 mother6--and1 burying his head in his arms1 he sobbed in an agony of grief4 ,he heard the burst of applause that greeted his piece--not ,raoul's2 he heard it all1 but moved not until he heard ,carl say3 ,come1 ,franz6 it's time to go4 ,they are all waiting for you2 but ,i am afraid that ,raoul has won the prize4 ,what should he do1 he wondered8 ,and then he thought perhaps the kind ,father in heaven would help him4 ,so1 breathing a little prayer in his heart1 he walked calmly forth upon the platform4 ,at first1 he trembled so that he could hardly begin2 then a sudden inspiration seemed to come to him--a quick light swept across his face4 ,he raised the violin to his shoulder and began4 ,the audience at first paid no attention2 but presently all became quiet1 and they leaned forward in breathless attention4 ,what a wonderful song it was6--for it was a song4 ,the violin seemed almost to speak1 and so softly and sweetly and with such exquisite pathos were the notes drawn forth that the eyes of many were filled with tears4 ,for it was pouring out all little ,franz's griefs and sorrows2 it was telling how the little heart was almost broken by the treachery of the friend2 it was telling how hard he had worked to win1 for the dear mother's sake2 and it was telling1 and the notes grew sweeter as it told1 how the good ,god had not forsaken him4 ,the boy seemed almost inspired2 his eyes were raised to heaven1 and his face glowed with a rapt delight1 as he improvised his beautiful song4 ,not a sound was heard2 it seemed as if all were turned to stone1 so intense was the silence4 ,his heart seemed to grow lighter of its burden1 and the song burst into a wild1 sweet carol1 that rang rich and clear through the hall2 and then it changed and grew so soft it could hardly be heard1 and at last it died away4 ,for a moment the vast audience seemed spell-bound2 then1 all rising with one uncontrollable impulse1 and breaking into a tempest of applause that rocked the building to its very foundations1 they rained down bouquets on his head4 ,but the boy stood with a far-off look in his large and beautiful eyes1 and then1 giving a little sigh1 fell heavily to the floor4 ,when he returned to consciousness1 he heard a voice say1 ,poor child6 ,it seemed like ,herr ,bach's2 and then he heard ,carl say1 in a sobbing voice1 ,franz6 dear ,franz6 ,why did they pity him1 he wondered2 and then it all came back to him--the prize1 the violin1 and ,raoul4 ,where is the violin8 he murmured4 ,it will be here in a moment1 some one said4 ,then he saw the pale1 remorseful face of ,raoul1 who said3 ,dear little ,franz1 forgive me6 ,the boy raised his hand and pointed to heaven1 and said1 softly3 ,dear ,raoul1 ,i forgive you6--and then all the pain and bitterness in his heart against ,raoul died out4 ,the sweet face of the ,empress1 made lovely by its look of tender pity1 bent over him1 and she kissed him and murmured1 ,poor little one6 ,then she placed the beautiful violin in his arms1 and the thalers in his hands4 ,and so1 with the famed violin and bright thalers clasped close on his breast1 the life-light died out of his eyes1 and little ,franz fell asleep4 ,,sweet ,,afton ,,robert ,,burns ,flow gently1 sweet ,afton1 among thy green braes1 ,flow gently1 ,i'll sing thee a song in thy praise1 ,my ,mary's asleep by the murmuring stream1 ,flow gently1 sweet ,afton1 disturb not her dream4 ,thou stock-dove1 whose echo resounds through the glen1 ,ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den1 ,thou green-crested lapwing1 thy screaming forbear1 ,i charge you disturb not my slumbering fair4 ,how lofty1 sweet ,afton1 thy neighboring hills6 ,far marked with the courses of clear1 winding rills1 ,there daily ,i wander as noon rises high1 ,my flocks and my ,mary's sweet cot in my eye4 ,how pleasant thy banks and green valleys below6 ,where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow2 ,there oft as mild evening sweeps over the lea1 ,the sweet-scented birk shades my ,mary and me4 ,thy crystal stream1 ,afton1 how lovely it glides1 ,and winds by my cot where my ,mary resides2 ,how wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave1 ,as gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave4 ,flow gently1 sweet ,afton1 among thy green braes1 ,flow gently1 sweet river1 the theme of my lays1 ,my ,mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream1 ,flow gently1 sweet ,afton1 disturb not her dream4 ,,violet',s ,,blue#ag ,,daniel ,,henry ,,jr4 ,theme4 ,violet's blue--,diddle1 diddle6 ,lavender's green4 ,when ,i am ,king--,diddle1 diddle6 ,you shall be ,queen4 ,mother ,goose ,melodies4 ,you shall have crown--,diddle1 diddle6 ,jewels and gold1 ,damasks and lace--,diddle1 diddle6 ,centuries old4 ,pages behind--,diddle1 diddle6 ,heralds before1 ,and all the state--,diddle1 diddle6 ,queens had of yore4 ,but when you're queen--,diddle1 diddle6 ,and ,i am king1 ,will your eyes shine--,diddle1 diddle6 ,will my lips sing1 ,as they do now--,diddle1 diddle6 ,when we are still1 ,poor country-folk--,diddle1 diddle6 ,plain ,jack and ,jill8 ,can our hearts beat--,diddle1 diddle6 ,our love unfold1 ,prisoned in pomp--,diddle1 diddle6 ,girdled with gold8 ,love thrives alone--,diddle1 diddle6 ,in open air2 ,where pageants are--,diddle1 diddle6 ,love is not there4 ,when skies are blue--,diddle1 diddle6 ,and fields are green1 ,i will be king--,diddle1 diddle6 ,you shall be queen4 ,queen of ,day-dreams--,diddle1 diddle6 ,king of ,no-lands1 ,with full-filled hearts--,diddle1 diddle6 ,and empty hands4 ,let others king--,diddle1 diddle6 ,and queen1 who will3 ,we're better so--,diddle1 diddle6 ,plain ,jack and ,jill4 ,,footnote3 #ag ,from ,under a ,fool's ,cap1 published by ,kegan ,paul1 ,french ,co41 ,london4 ,,to ,a ,,waterfowl#ah ,,william ,,cullen ,,bryant ,whither1 midst falling dew1 ,while glow the heavens with the last steps of day1 ,far through their rosy depths1 dost thou pursue ,thy solitary way8 ,vainly the fowler's eye ,might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong1 ,as1 darkly painted on the crimson sky1 ,thy figure floats along4 ,seek'st thou the plashy brink ,of weedy lake1 or marge of river wide1 ,or where the rocking billows rise and sink ,on the chafed ocean-side8 ,there is a power whose care ,teaches thy way along that pathless coast-- ,the desert and illimitable air-- ,lone wandering1 but not lost4 ,all day thy wings have fanned1 ,at that far height1 the cold1 thin atmosphere1 ,yet stoop not1 weary1 to the welcome land1 ,though the dark night is near4 ,and soon that toil shall end2 ,soon shalt thou find a summer home1 and rest1 ,and scream among thy fellows2 reeds shall bend1 ,soon1 o'er thy sheltered nest4 ,thou'rt gone1 the abyss of heaven ,hath swallowed up thy form2 yet on my heart ,deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given1 ,and shall not soon depart3 ,he who1 from zone to zone1 ,guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight1 ,in the long way that ,i must tread alone1 ,will lead my steps aright4 ,,footnote3 #ah ,by permission of ,d4 ,appleton ,co41 publishers4 ,,the ,,wedding-,,gown ,,etta ,w4 ,,pierce ,bring it from the oaken press2 full fifty years ago ,i sewed those seams1 my heart all full of youth and hope and ,joe-- ,joe1 whose wife ,i was to be--my lover1 strong and brown1 ,captain of the stanchest craft that sailed from ,gloucester town4 ,it seems a worthless thing to hold so carefully in store1 ,this poor1 old1 faded bridal dress1 which no bride ever wore2 ,cut in the curious style of half a century ago1 ,with scanty skirt and 'broidered bands--my own hands shaped it so4 ,niece ,hester1 spread it on my bed--my eyes grow blind with tears2 ,i touch its limp and yellow folds1 and lo6 the long dead years ,come trooping back like churchyard ghosts4 ,this was my wedding-gown-- ',twas made the year the equinox brought woe to ,gloucester town4 ,ah1 ,i remember well the night ,i walked the beach with him-- ,the moon was rising just above the ocean's purple rim1 ,and all the savage ,cape ,ann rocks shone in her mellow light2 ,the time was spring1 and heaven itself seemed close to us that night4 ,we heard the cool waves beat the shore1 the seabird's startled cry2 ,like spirits in the dark1 we saw the coasters flitting by4 ,high in their towers the beacons burned1 like wintry embers red1 ,from ,ipswich1 down the rough sea-line1 to crag-girt ,marblehead4 ',i love you1 ,nan6' ,joe said1 at last1 in his grave1 simple way-- ,i'd felt the words a-coming1 child1 for many a long1 glad day4 ,i hung my head1 he kissed me--oh1 sweetest hour of life6 ,a stammering word1 a sigh1 and ,i was ,joe's own promised wife4 ,but fishing-folks have much to do2 my lover could not stay-- ,the gallant ,gloucester fleet was bound to waters far away1 ,where wild storms swoop1 and shattering fogs muster their dim1 gray ranks1 ,and spread a winding-sheet for men upon the fatal ,banks4 ,and he1 my ,joe1 must go to reap the harvest of the deep1 ,while ,i1 like other women1 stayed behind to mourn and weep1 ,and ,i would see his face no more till autumn woods were brown4 ,his schooner ,nan was swift and new1 the pride of ,gloucester town2 ,he called her by my name4 '',tis sure to bring me luck1' said ,joe4 ,she spread her wings1 and through my tears ,i stood and watched her go4 ,the days grew hot and long2 ,i sewed the crisp and shining seams ,of this1 my wedding-gown1 and dreamed a thousand happy dreams ,of future years and ,joe1 while leaf and bud and sweet marsh-flower ,i fashioned on the muslin fine1 for many a patient hour4 ,in ,gloucester wood the wild rose bloomed1 and shed its sweets and died1 ,and dry and tawny grew the grass along the marshes wide4 ,the last stitch in my gown was set2 ,i looked across the sea-- ',fly fast1 oh1 time1 fly fast6' ,i said1 'and bring him home to me2 ,and ,i will deck my yellow hair and don my bridal gown1 ,the day the gallant fishing-fleet comes back to ,gloucester town6' ,the rough skies darkened o'er the deep1 loud blew the autumn gales2 ,with anxious eyes the fishers' wives watched for the home-bound sails ,from ,gloucester shore1 and ,rockport crags1 lashed by the breakers dread1 ,from cottage doors of ,beverly1 and rocks of ,marblehead4 ,ah1 child1 with trembling hand ,i set my candle at the pane1 ,with fainting heart and choking breath1 ,i heard the dolorous rain-- ,the sea that beat the groaning beach with wild and thunderous shocks1 ,the black death calling1 calling from the savage equinox2 ,the flap of sails1 the crash of masts1 or so it seemed to me1 ,and cries of strong men drowning in the clutches of the sea4 ,i never wore my wedding-gown1 so crisp and fine and fair2 ,i never decked with bridal flowers my pretty yellow hair1 ,no bridegroom came to claim me when the autumn leaves were sear1 ,for there was bitter wailing on the rugged coast that year2 ,and vain was further vigil from its rocks and beaches brown ,for never did the fishing-fleet sail back to ,gloucester town4 ',twas fifty years ago4 ,there1 child1 put back the faded dress1 ,my winding-sheet of youth and hope1 into the oaken press4 ,my life hath known no other joy1 my heart no other glow1 ,feeble and worn1 it still beats on in faithful love for ,joe2 ,and1 like some hulk cast on a shore by waters sore distressed1 ,i wait until he calls me from his own good place of rest4 ,she woke at dawn and lifted up her head so old and gray1 ,and stared across the sandy beach1 and o'er the low blue bay4 ,it was the hour when mists depart and midnight phantoms flee1 ,the rosy sun was blushing red along the splendid sea4 ,a rapture lit her face4 ,the bay is white with sails6 she cried1 ,they sweep it like the silver foam of waves at rising tide-- ,sails from an unknown sea4 ,oh1 haste and bring my wedding-gown-- ,it is the long-lost fishing-fleet come back to ,gloucester town6 ,and look6 his ,nan leads all the rest4 ,dear ,lord1 ,i see my ,joe6 ,he beckons from her shining deck--haste1 friends1 for ,i must go4 ,the old1 old light is in his eyes1 the old smile on his lips2 ,all grand and pale he stands among the crowding1 white-winged ships4 ,this is our wedding-morn4 ,at last the bridegroom claims his bride4 ,sweetheart1 ,i have been true2 my hand--here--take it6 ,then she died4 ,,when ,,the ,,snow ,,sifts ,,through#ai ,s4 ,w4 ,,gillilan ,the icy gale that hurled the snow ,against the window pane1 ,and rattled the sash with a merry clash ,used not its strength in vain2 ,for now and then a wee flake sifted ,through the loose ill-fitting frame1 ,by the warmer breezes each was lifted ,all melting as they came4 ,the baby stood with shining eyes1 ,her hands upon the sill2 ,she watched each flake and the course 'twould take1 ,and her voice was never still4 ',twas1 ,papa1 where does the whiteness go8 ,and1 ,where's all the beauty gone8 ,what makes it be wet spots 'stead o' snow1 ,when it gets in where it's warm8 ,i smiled that day1 but seldom now ,does the thought of smiling come2 ,a phantom shape1 a bow of crape1 ,and my sweet little child went home4 ,o ,father1 ,where does the whiteness go8 ,and whither's the beauty flown8 ,why are there 'wet spots 'stead o' snow' ,on my cheek as ,i face the storm8 ,again the wild wind hurls the snow ,against the frosted pane ,and a few flakes dash through the rattling sash1 ,while ,i hear those words again4 ,the flakes scurry off to a spot on the hill ,where a little mound is seen1 ,and they cover it softly and tenderly ,as the grass with its cloak of green4 ,,footnote3 #ai ,by permission of the author4 ,,to ,a ,,wild ,,flower#bj ,,maurice ,,thompson ,in the green solitudes ,of the deep1 shady woods ,thy lot is kindly cast1 and life to thee ,is like a gust of rarest minstrelsy4 ,the winds of ,may and ,june ,hum many a tender tune1 ,blowing above thy leafy hiding-place1 ,kissing1 all thrilled with joy1 thy modest face4 ,about thee float and glow ,rare insects1 hovering low1 ,and round thee glance thin streams of delicate grass1 ,plashing their odors on thee as they pass4 ,the sheen of brilliant wings ,songs of shy1 flitting things1 ,the low1 mysterious melodies that thrill ,through every summer wood1 thy sweet life fill4 ,oh bloom6 all joy is thine1 ,all loves around thee shine1 ,the thousand hearts of nature throb for thee1 ,her thousand voices praise thee tenderly4 ,oh bloom of purest glory1 ,flower of love's gentlest story1 ,forever keep thy petals fresh and fair1 ,forever send thy sweetness down the air6 ,i'll put thee in my song1 ,with all thy joys along1 ,at which some sunny hearts may sunnier grow1 ,and frozen ones may gently slip their snow4 ,,footnote3 #bj ,used by permission of1 and special arrangement with1 ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 the authorized publishers of this author's works4 ,,the ,,fate ,,of ,,zoroaster ,f4 ,,marion ,,crawford ,zoroaster a young ,persian and ,nehushta a ,hebrew maiden were betrothed lovers2 an unfortunate misunderstanding separated them and1 in a fit of jealousy1 ,nehushta became a wife of ,darius1 king of the ,persians4 ,zoroaster entered the priesthood and later became the high priest of the temple in the king's palace4 ,in a subsequent interview with the high priest1 ,nehushta discovers that her jealousy was groundless1 but it was now too late to correct her unhappy mistake4 ,in the meantime ,nehushta had incurred the jealousy and hatred of another wife of ,darius1 who1 in the absence of the king1 planned the massacre of the priests of the temple and ,nehushta and her servants4 ,four days after the king's departure1 ,nehushta was wandering in the gardens as the sun was going down4 ,just then a strange sound echoed far off among the hills1 an unearthly cry that rang high in the air and struck the dark crags and doubled in the echo and died away in short1 faint pulsations of sound4 ,she started slightly1 she had never heard such a sound before4 ,again that strange cry rang out and echoed and died away4 ,her slave women gathered about her4 ,what is it8 asked ,nehushta4 ,the war cry of the children of ,anak is like that1 said a little ,syrian maid4 ,nehushta pushed the slaves aside and fled towards the palace4 ,the truth had flashed across her4 ,some armed force was collecting on the hills to descend upon the palace4 ,but one thought filled her mind4 ,she must find ,zoroaster and warn him4 ,through the garden she ran1 and up the broad steps to the portico4 ,slaves were moving about under the colonnade1 lighting the great torches that burned there all night4 ,they had not heard the strange cries from the hills4 ,as she entered the great hall1 she heard the cry again4 ,go1 my little maid1 in one direction and ,i will go in another1 and search out ,zoroaster1 the high priest1 and bring him4 ,the girl turned and ran through the halls1 and ,nehushta went another way upon her search4 ,something within her told her that she was in great danger1 and the calm she had seen in the palace could not allay the terror of that cry she had heard three times from the hills4 ,just then the ,syrian maid came running in and fell breathless at ,nehushta's feet4 ,fly1 fly1 beloved mistress1 the devils of the mountains are upon us--they cover the hills--they are closing every entrance--the people in the lower palace are all slain4 ,where is ,zoroaster8 ,he is in the temple with the priests--by this time he is surely slain--he could know of nothing going on--fly1 fly6 ,on which side are they coming8 ,from the hills1 from the hills they are descending in thousands4 ,go you all to the farther window1 leap down upon the balcony--it is scarce a man's height1--follow it to the end past the corner where it joins the main wall of the garden4 ,run along upon the wall till you find a place where you can descend4 ,through the gardens you can easily reach the road4 ,fly1 and save yourselves in the darkness4 ,but before she had half finished1 the last of the slave women1 mad with terror1 disappeared4 ,why do you not go with the rest1 my little maid8 asked ,nehushta4 ,i have eaten thy bread1 shall ,i leave thee in the hour of death8 ,go1 child1 ,i have seen thy devotion2 thou must not perish4 ,but the ,syrian leaped to her feet as she answered3 ,i am a bondwoman1 but ,i am a daughter of ,israel1 even as thou art4 ,though all the others leave thee1 ,i will not4 ,it may be ,i can help thee4 ,thou art a brave child2 ,i must go to ,zoroaster2 stay thou here1 hide thyself among the curtains1 escape by the window if any one come to harm thee4 ,she turned and went rapidly out4 ,but the maid grasped the knife in her girdle1 and stole upon her mistress's steps4 ,the din rose louder every moment--the shrieks of wounded women with the moaning of wounded men1 the clash of swords and arms1 and a quick1 loud rattle1 as half a dozen arrows struck the wall together4 ,onward flew ,nehushta till she reached the temple door2 then she listened4 ,faintly through the thick walls she could hear the sound of the evening chant4 ,the priests were all within with ,zoroaster1 unconscious of their danger4 ,nehushta tried the door4 ,the great bronze gates were locked1 and though she pushed with her whole strength1 they would not move a hair's breadth4 ,press the nail nearest the middle1 said a small voice4 ,nehushta started4 ,it was the little ,syrian slave4 ,she put her hand upon the round head of the nail and pressed4 ,the door opened1 turning noiselessly upon its hinges4 ,the seventy priests1 in even rank1 stood round4 ,solemnly the chant rose round the sacred fire upon the black stone altar4 ,zoroaster stood before it1 his hands lifted in prayer4 ,but ,nehushta with a sudden cry broke their melody4 ,zoroaster--fly--there is yet time6 ,the enemy are come in thousands2 they are in the palace4 ,there is barely time6 ,the high priest turned calmly1 his face unmoved1 although the priests ceased their chanting and gathered about their chief in fear4 ,as their voices ceased1 a low roar was heard from without as though the ocean were beating at the gates4 ,go thou and save thyself1 said ,zoroaster4 ,i will not go4 ,if it be the will of the ,all-,wise that ,i perish1 ,i will perish before this altar4 ,go thou quickly and save thyself while there is yet time4 ,but ,nehushta took his hand in hers1 and gazed into his calm eyes4 ,knowest thou not1 ,zoroaster1 that ,i would rather die with thee than live with any other8 ,i swear to thee1 by the ,god of my fathers1 ,i will not leave thee6 ,there is no more time6 ,there is no more time6 ,ye are all dead men6 ,behold1 they are breaking down the doors6 ,as she spoke the noise of some heavy mass striking against the bronze gates echoed like thunder through the temple1 and at each blow a chorus of hideous yells rose1 wild and long drawn out4 ,can none of you save ,zoroaster8 cried ,nehushta4 ,but ,zoroaster gently said3 ,ye cannot save me1 for my hour is come2 we must die like men1 and like priests of the ,lord before ,his altar2 and1 raising one hand to heaven1 he chanted3 ,praise we the all-wise ,god ,who hath made and created the years and the ages2 ,praise ,him who rides on death1 ,in whose hand are all power and honor and glory2 ,who made the day of life1 ,that should rise up and lighten the shadow of death4 ,with a crash the great bronze doors gave way1 and fell clanging in4 ,in an instant the temple was filled with a swarm of hideous men4 ,their swords gleamed aloft as they passed forward1 and their yells rent the roof4 ,they had hoped for treasure--they saw but a handful of white-robed1 unarmed men4 ,their rage knew no bounds1 and their screams rose more piercing than ever1 as they surrounded the doomed band1 and dyed their blades in the blood that flowed red over the white vestures4 ,the priests struggled like brave men1 but the foe were a hundred to one4 ,a sharp blade fell swiftly and the brave little slave fell shrieking to the floor4 ,nehushta's eyes met the high priest's triumphant gaze and her hands clasped his wildly4 ,oh1 ,zoroaster1 my beloved1 my beloved6 ,say not any more that ,i am unfaithful1 for ,i have been faithful even unto death1 and ,i shall be with you beyond the stars for ever6 ,beyond the stars and for ever6 he cried2 in the light of the glory of ,god most high6 ,the keen sword flashed and severed ,nehushta's neck and found its sheath in her lover's heart2 and they fell down dead together4 ,,ii ,,solemn1 ,,reverential1 ,,sublime ,,centennial ,,hymn#ba ,,john ,g4 ,,whittier ,our father's ,god6 from out whose hand ,the centuries fall like grains of sand1 ,we meet to-day1 united1 free ,and loyal to our land and ,thee1 ,to thank ,thee for the era done1 ,and trust ,thee for the opening one4 ,here where of old1 by ,thy design1 ,the fathers spake that word of ,thine ,whose echo is the glad refrain ,of rended bolt and falling chain1 ,to grace our festal time1 from all ,the zones of earth1 our guests we call4 ,be with us while the ,new ,world greets ,the ,old ,world thronging all its streets ,unveiling all the triumphs won ,by art or toil beneath the sun2 ,and unto common good ordain ,this rivalship of hand and brain4 ,thou1 who hast here in concord furled ,the war flags of a gathered world1 ,beneath the ,western skies fulfill ,the ,orient's mission of good-will1 ,and1 freighted with love's ,golden ,fleece1 ,send back its ,argonauts of peace4 ,for art and labor met in truce1 ,for beauty made the bride of use1 ,we thank ,thee2 but1 withal1 we crave ,the austere virtues strong to save1 ,the honor proof to place or gold1 ,the manhood never bought nor sold6 ,oh1 make ,thou us1 through centuries long1 ,in peace secure1 in justice strong2 ,around our gift of freedom draw ,the safeguards of ,thy righteous law2 ,and1 cast in some diviner mold1 ,let the new cycle shame the old6 ,,footnote3 #ba ,by permission of1 and special arrangement with1 ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 authorized publishers of this author's works4 ,,the ,,chambered ,,nautilus#bb ,,oliver ,,wendell ,,holmes ,this is the ship of pearl1 which1 poets feign1 ,sails the unshadowed main1-- ,the venturous bark that flings ,on the sweet summer wind its purpled wings1 ,in gulfs enchanted1 where the ,siren sings1 ,and coral reefs lie bare1 ,where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair4 ,its webs of living gauze no more unfurl2 ,wrecked is the ship of pearl6 ,and every chambered cell1 ,where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell1 ,as the frail tenant shaped his growing shell1 ,before thee lies revealed1-- ,its irised ceiling rent1 its sunless crypt unsealed6 ,year after year beheld the silent toil ,that spread his lustrous coil2 ,still1 as the spiral grew1 ,he left the past year's dwelling for the new1 ,stole with soft step its shining archway through1 ,built up its idle door1 ,stretched in his last-found home1 and knew the old no more4 ,thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee1 ,child of the wandering sea1 ,cast from her lap1 forlorn6 ,from thy dead lips a clearer note is born ,than ever ,triton blew from wreathed horn6 ,while on mine ear it rings1 ,through the deep caves of thought ,i hear a voice that sings3-- ,build thee more stately mansions1 ,o my soul1 ,as the swift seasons roll6 ,leave thy low-vaulted past6 ,let each new temple1 nobler than the last1 ,shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast1 ,till thou at length art free1 ,leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea6 ,,footnote3 #bb ,used by permission of1 and special arrangement with1 ,houghton1 ,mifflin and ,co41 authorized publishers of this author's works4 ,,crossing ,,the ,,bar ,,alfred ,,lord ,,tennyson ,sunset and evening star ,and one clear call for me6 ,and may there be no moaning of the bar ,when ,i put out to sea4 ,but such a tide as moving seems asleep1 ,too full for sound and foam ,when that which drew from out the boundless deep ,turns again home4 ,twilight and evening bell ,and after that the dark2 ,and may there be no sadness of farewell ,when ,i embark2 ,for though from out our bourne of time and place ,the flood may bear me far1 ,i hope to see my ,pilot face to face ,when ,i have crossed the bar4 ,,the ,,destruction ,,of ,,sennacherib ,,lord ,,byron ,the ,assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold1 ,and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold2 ,and the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea1 ,when the blue wave rolls nightly on deep ,galilee4 ,like the leaves of the forest when ,summer is green1 ,that host with their banners at sunset were seen2 ,like the leaves of the forest when ,autumn hath flown1 ,that host on the morrow lay withered and strown4 ,for the ,angel of ,death spread his wings on the blast1 ,and breathed in the face of the foe as he passed2 ,and the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill1 ,and their hearts but once heaved1 and for ever grew still6 ,and there lay the steed with his nostril all wide1 ,but through it there rolled not the breath of his pride2 ,and the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf1 ,and cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf4 ,and there lay the rider distorted and pale1 ,with the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail2 ,and the tents were all silent1 the banners alone1 ,the lances unlifted1 the trumpet unblown4 ,and the widows of ,ashur are loud in their wail1 ,and their idols are broke in the temple of ,baal2 ,and the might of the ,gentile1 unsmote by the sword1 ,hath melted like snow in the glance of the ,lord6 ,,each ,,and ,,all#bc ,,ralph ,,waldo ,,emerson ,little thinks1 in the field1 yon red-cloaked clown1 ,on thee1 from the hill top looking down2 ,and the heifer that lows on the upland farm1 ,far heard1 lows not thine ear to charm2 ,the sexton1 tolling the bell at noon1 ,dreams not that great ,napoleon ,stops his horse and lists with delight1 ,as his files sweep round yon distant height2 ,nor knowest thou what argument ,thy life to thy neighbor's creed hath lent2 ,all are needed by each one-- ,nothing is fair or good alone4 ,i caught the linnet's note from heaven1 ,singing at dawn1 on the alder bough2 ,i brought him home in his nest at even3 ,he sings the song2 but it pleases not now2 ,for ,i did not bring home the river and sky2 ,he sang to my ear--they sing to my eye4 ,the delicate shell lay on the shore2 ,the bubbles of the latest wave ,fresh pearls to their emerald gave2 ,and the bellowing of the savage sea ,greeted their safe escape to me4 ,i wiped away the weeds and foam1 ,and fetched my sea-born treasures home2 ,but the poor1 unsightly1 noisome things ,had left their beauty on the shore1 ,with the sun1 and the sand1 and the wild uproar ,nor rose1 nor stream1 nor bird is fair2 ,their concord is beyond compare4 ,,footnote3 #bc ,used by permission of1 and special arrangement with1 ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 the authorized publishers4 ,,laus ,,deo6#bd ,,on ,,hearing ,,bells ,,announcing ,,emancipation ,,john ,g4 ,,whittier ,it is done6 ,clang of bell and roar of gun ,send the tidings up and down4 ,how the belfries rock and reel6 ,how the great guns1 peal on peal1 ,fling the joy from town to town6 ,ring1 ,o bells6 ,every stroke exulting tells ,of the burial hour of crime4 ,loud and long1 that all may hear4 ,ring for every listening ear ,of ,eternity and ,time6 ,let us kneel6 ,god's own voice is in that peal1 ,and this spot is holy ground4 ,lord1 forgive us6 ,what are we1 ,that our eyes this glory see1 ,that our ears have heard the sound6 ,for the ,lord ,on the whirlwind is abroad2 ,in the earthquake he has spoken2 ,he has smitten with his thunder ,the iron walls asunder1 ,and the gates of brass are broken6 ,loud and long ,lift the old exulting song2 ,sing with ,miriam by the sea ,he has cast the mighty down2 ,horse and rider sink and drown2 ,he hath triumphed gloriously6 ,did we dare ,in our agony of prayer1 ,ask for more than ,he has done8 ,when was ever his right hand ,over any time or land ,stretched as now beneath the sun6 ,how they pale1 ,ancient myth and song and tale1 ,in this wonder of our days1 ,when the cruel rod of war ,blossoms white with righteous law1 ,and the wrath of man is praise6 ,blotted out6 ,all within and all about ,shall a fresher life begin2 ,freer breathe the universe ,as it rolls its heavy curse ,on the dead and buried sin6 ,it is done6 ,in the circuit of the sun ,shall the sound thereof go forth4 ,it shall bid the sad rejoice1 ,it shall give the dumb a voice1 ,it shall belt with joy the earth6 ,ring and swing1 ,bells of joy6 ,on morning's wing ,send the song of praise abroad6 ,with a sound of broken chains ,tell the nations that ,he reigns1 ,who alone is ,lord and ,god6 ,,footnote3 #bd ,by permission of ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 authorized publishers of this author's works4 ,,the ,,pilgrim ,,fathers ,,felicia ,,dorothea ,,hemans ,the breaking waves dashed high on a stern and rockbound coast1 ,and the woods against a stormy sky their giant branches tossed1 ,and the heavy night hung dark the hills and waters o'er1 ,when a band of exiles moored their bark on the wild ,new ,england shore4 ,not as the conqueror comes1 they1 the true-hearted1 came1-- ,not with the roll of stirring drums1 and the trumpet that sings of fame3 ,not as the flying come1 in silence and in fear1-- ,they shook the depths of the desert's gloom with their hymns of lofty cheer4 ,amidst the storm they sang2 this the stars heard and the sea6 ,and the sounding aisles of the dim wood rang to the anthems of the free6 ,the ocean-eagle soared from his nest by the white waves' foam1 ,and the rocking pines of the forest roared2--this was their welcome home4 ,there were men with hoary hair amidst that pilgrim band2 ,why had they come to wither there1 away from their childhood's land8 ,there was woman's fearless eye1 lit by her deep love's truth2 ,there was manhood's brow serenely high1 and the fiery heart of youth4 ,what sought they thus afar8 ,bright jewels of the mine8 ,the wealth of seas1 the spoils of war8--,they sought a faith's pure shrine6 ,aye1 call it holy ground1 the soil where first they trod6 ,they have left unstained what there they found1--freedom to worship ,god6 ,,the ,,present ,,crisis#be ,,james ,,russell ,,lowell ,when a deed is done for freedom1 through the broad earth's aching breast ,runs a thrill of joy prophetic1 trembling on from ,east to ,west2 ,and the slave1 where'er he cowers1 feels the soul within him climb1 ,to the awful verge of manhood1 as the energy sublime ,of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of time4 ,for mankind are one in spirit1 and an instinct bears along ,round the earth's electric circle the swift flash of right or wrong2 ,whether conscious or unconscious1 yet humanity's vast frame ,through its ocean-sundered fibers feels the gush of joy or shame-- ,in the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim4 ,once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide1 ,in the strife of ,truth with ,falsehood1 for the good or evil side2 ,some great cause1 ,god's new ,messiah1 offering each the bloom or blight1 ,parts the goats upon the left hand1 and the sheep upon the right1 ,and the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light4 ,backward look across the ages1 and the beacon moments see ,that1 like peaks of some sunk continent1 jut through oblivion's sea2 ,not an ear in court or market for the low foreboding cry ,of those crises1 ,god's stern winnowers1 from whose feet earth's chaff must fly2 ,never shows the choice momentous till the judgment hath passed by4 ,careless seems the great avenger2 history's pages but record ,one death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the ,word2 ,truth forever on the scaffold1 wrong forever on the throne1 ,yet that scaffold sways the future1 and1 behind the dim unknown1 ,standeth ,god within the shadow1 keeping watch above ,his own4 ,we see dimly in the present what is small and what is great2 ,slow of faith1 how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate6 ,but the soul is still oracular2 amid the market's din1 ,list the ominous stern whisper from the delphic cave within1 ,they enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin4 ,then to side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust1 ,ere her cause bring fame and profit1 and 'tis prosperous to be just2 ,then it is the brave man chooses1 while the coward stands aside1 ,doubting in his abject spirit1 till his ,lord is crucified1 ,and the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied4 ,count me o'er earth's chosen heroes--they were souls that stood alone1 ,while the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone2 ,stood serene and down the future1 saw the golden beam incline ,to the side of perfect justice1 mastered by their faith divine ,by one man's plain truth to manhood and to ,god's supreme design4 ,by the light of burning heretics ,christ's bleeding feet ,i track1 ,toiling up new ,calvaries ever with the cross that turns not back1 ,and these mounts of anguish number how each generation learned ,one new word of that grand credo which in prophet-hearts hath burned1 ,since the first man stood ,god-conquered with his face to heaven upturned4 ,for humanity sweeps onward2 where to-day the martyr stands1 ,on the morrow crouches ,judas with the silver in his hands2 ,far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn1 ,while the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return ,to glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn4 ',tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves ,of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers' graves4 ,worshipers of light ancestral make the present light a crime2 ,was the ,mayflower launched by cowards1 steered by men behind their time8 ,turn those tracks toward past or future that make ,plymouth ,rock sublime8 ,they have rights who dare maintain them2 we are traitors to our sires1 ,smothering in their holy ashes freedom's new-lit altar fires4 ,shall we make their creed our jailer8 ,shall we1 in our haste to slay1 ,from the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away ,to light the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day8 ,new occasions teach new duties2 time makes ancient good uncouth2 ,they must upward still and onward1 who would keep abreast of truth2 ,lo1 before us gleam her camp-fires6 ,we ourselves must ,pilgrims be1 ,launch our ,mayflower1 and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea1 ,nor attempt the future's portal with the past's blood-rusted key4 ,,footnote3 #be ,used by permission of ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 authorized publishers of this author's works4 ,,the ,,recessional ,,rudyard ,,kipling ,god of our fathers1 known of old-- ,lord of our far-flung battle line-- ,beneath whose awful hand we hold ,dominion over palm and pine2 ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 ,lest we forget1--lest we forget4 ,the tumult and the shouting dies1 ,the captains and the kings depart-- ,still stands thine ancient sacrifice1 ,an humble and a contrite heart4 ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 ,lest we forget1--lest we forget4 ,if1 drunk with sight of power1 we loose ,wild tongues that have not thee in awe-- ,such boastings as the ,gentiles use1 ,or lesser breeds without the ,law-- ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 ,lest we forget1--lest we forget6 ,for heathen heart that puts her trust ,in reeking tube and iron shard-- ,all valiant dust that builds on dust1 ,and guarding calls not thee to guard1 ,for frantic boast and foolish word1 ,thy mercy on thy people1 ,lord6 ,,the ,,sacredness ,,of ,,work ,,thomas ,,carlyle ,all true work is sacred2 in all true hand-labor1 there is something of divineness4 ,labor1 wide as the earth1 has its summit in ,heaven4 ,sweat of the brow2 and up from that to sweat of the brain1 sweat of the heart2 which includes all ,kepler's calculations1 ,newton's meditations1 all sciences1 all spoken epics1 all acted heroism1 martyrdoms--up to that ,agony of bloody sweat1 which all men have called divine6 ,oh1 brother1 if this is not worship1 then1 ,i say1 the more pity for worship2 for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under ,god's sky6 ,who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil8 ,complain not4 ,look up1 my wearied brother2 see thy fellow-workmen there1 in ,god's ,eternity2 surviving there1 they alone surviving2 sacred ,band of the ,immortals1 celestial ,body-guard of the ,empire of ,mind4 ,even in the weak human memory they survive so long1 as saints1 as heroes1 as gods2 they alone surviving2 peopling the immeasured solitudes of ,time6 ,to thee ,heaven1 though severe1 is not unkind2 ,heaven is kind--as a noble mother2 as that ,spartan mother1 saying1 while she gave her son his shield1 ,with it1 my son1 or upon it6 ,thou1 too1 shalt return home1 in honor to thy far-distant home1 doubt it not--if in the battle thou keep thy shield4 ,,what',s ,,hallowed ,,ground8 ,,thomas ,,campbell ,what's hallowed ground8 ,has earth a clod ,its ,maker meant not should be trod ,by man1 the image of his ,god1 ,erect and free1 ,unscourged by superstition's rod ,to bow the knee8 ,what hallows ground where heroes sleep8 ',tis not the sculptured piles you heap1 ,in dews that ,heavens far distant weep1 ,their turf may bloom1 ,or ,genii twine beneath the deep ,their coral tomb4 ,but strew his ashes to the wind1 ,whose sword or voice has saved mankind1 ,and is he dead1 whose glorious mind ,lifts thine on high8 ,to live in hearts we leave behind ,is not to die6 ,is't death to fall for ,freedom's right8 ,he's dead alone that lacks her light6 ,and murder sullies1 in ,heaven's sight ,the sword he draws4 ,what can alone ennoble fight8 ,a noble cause4 ,what's hallowed ground8 ',tis what gives birth ,to sacred thoughts in souls of worth4 ,peace6 ,independence6 ,truth6 go forth ,earth's compass round1 ,and your high priesthood shall make earth ,all hallowed ground4 ,,iii ,,patriotic1 ,,heroic1 ,,oratorical ,,the ,,seven ,,great ,,orators ,,of ,,the ,,world ,harvard ,university after mature consideration has proclaimed that in the history of eloquence there are seven great orators who stand preeminent above other orators whom the world calls great4 ,a visitor to that venerable institution of learning1 on coming to ,memorial ,hall1 will find at the theater end1 on the outside and just above the cornice1 seven niches containing gigantic busts of these seven orators3 ,demosthenes1 the ,greek2 ,cicero1 the ,roman2 ,chrysostom1 the ,asiatic ,greek2 ,bossuet1 the ,frenchman2 ,chatham1 the ,englishman2 ,burke1 the ,irishman2 and ,webster1 the ,american4 ,it is in furtherance of this idea that we have selected short passages of eloquence from each of these men2 and also with the threefold purpose of acquainting young students with masterpieces of oratory since the dawn of history1 of providing passages well worth committing to memory1 and offering extracts well suited for practice in public speaking4 ,i4 ,,demosthenes ,,the ,,encroachments ,,of ,,philip#bf ,men of ,athens1 if any one regard without uneasiness the might and dominion of ,philip1 and imagine that it threatens no danger to the state1 or that all his preparations are not against you1 ,i marvel1 and would entreat you every one to hear briefly from me the reasons why ,i am led to form a contrary expectation1 and why ,i deem ,philip an enemy2 that1 if ,i appear to have the clearer foresight1 you may hearken to me2 if they1 who have such confidence and trust in ,philip1 you may give your adherence to them4 ,what did ,philip first make himself master of after the peace8 ,thermopylae and the ,phocian state4 ,and how used he his power8 ,he chose to act for the benefit of ,thebes1 not of ,athens4 ,why so8 ,because1 ,i conceive1 measuring his calculations by ambition1 by his desire of universal empire1 without regard to peace1 quiet1 or justice1 he saw plainly that to a people of our character and principles nothing could he offer or give that would induce you for self-interest to sacrifice any of the ,greeks to him4 ,he sees that you1 having respect for justice1 dreading the infamy of the thing1 and exercising proper forethought1 would oppose him in any such attempt as much as if you were at war4 ,but the ,thebans1 he expected1 would1 in return for the services done them1 allow him in everything else to have his way1 and1 so far from thwarting or impeding him1 would fight on his side if he required it4 ,you are judged by these to be the only people incapable of betraying for lucre the national rights of ,greece1 or bartering your attachment to her for any obligation or benefit4 ,and this opinion of you he has naturally formed1 not only from a view of present times1 but by reflection on the past4 ,for assuredly he finds and hears that your ancestors1 who might have governed the rest of ,greece on terms of submitting to ,persia1 not only spurned the proposal when ,alexander1 this man's ancestor1 came as herald to negotiate1 but preferred to abandon their country and endure any suffering1 and thereafter achieved such exploits as all the world loves to remember1--though none could ever speak them worthily1 and therefore ,i must be silent1 for their deeds are too mighty to be uttered in words4 ,but the forefathers of the ,thebans either joined the barbarian's army or did not oppose it2 and therefore he knows that they will selfishly embrace their advantage1 without considering the common interest of the ,greeks4 ,he thought then if he chose your friendship1 it must be on just principles2 if he attached himself to them1 he should find auxiliaries of his ambition4 ,this is the reason of his preferring them to you both then and now4 ,for certainly he does not see them with a larger navy than you1 nor has he acquired an inland empire and renounced that of the sea and the ports1 nor does he forget the professions and promises on which he obtained the peace4 ,i cannot think that ,philip1 either if he was forced into his former measures1 or if he were now giving up the ,thebans1 would pertinaciously oppose their enemies2 his present conduct rather shows that he adopted those measures by choice4 ,all things prove to a correct observer that his whole plan of action is against our state4 ,and this has now become to him a sort of necessity4 ,consider4 ,he desires empire2 he conceives you to be his only opponents4 ,he has been for some time wronging you1 as his own conscience best informs him1 since1 by retaining what belongs to you1 he secures the rest of his dominion4 ,he knows that he is plotting against you1 and that you are aware of it2 and supposing you to have intelligence1 he thinks you must hate him2 he is alarmed1 expecting some disaster1 unless he hastens to prevent you4 ,therefore he is awake and on the watch against us2 he courts certain people1 who from cupidity1 he thinks1 will be satisfied with the present1 and from dullness of understanding will foresee none of the consequences4 ,i imagine that what ,philip is doing will grieve you hereafter more than it does now4 ,i see the thing progressing1 and would that my surmises were false1 but ,i doubt it is too near already4 ,so when you are able no longer to disregard events1 when1 instead of hearing from me or others that these measures are against ,athens1 you all see it yourselves and know it for certain1 ,i expect you will be wrathful and exasperated4 ,i fear then1 as your ambassadors have concealed the purpose for which they know they were corrupted1 those who endeavor to repair what the others have lost may chance to encounter your resentment1 for ,i see it is a practice with many to vent their anger1 not upon the guilty1 but on persons most in their power4 ,had you not been then deceived there would be nothing to distress the state4 ,philip would certainly never have prevailed at sea and come to ,attica with a fleet1 nor would he have marched with a land force by ,phocis and ,thermopylae2 he must either have acted honorably1 observing the peace and keeping quiet1 or been immediately in a war similar to that which made him desire the peace4 ,enough has been said to awaken recollection4 ,grant1 ,o ye gods1 it be not all fully confirmed6 ,though he may deserve death ,i would have no man punished to the damage and danger of the country4 ,,footnote3 #bf ,from the ,second ,philippic delivered at ,athens1 #cdd ,b4,c4 ,,ii4 ,,marcus ,,tullius ,,cicero ,,oration ,,against ,,antony#bg ,who is there who does not see that ,antonius has been adjudged to be an enemy8 ,for what else can we call him1 when the ,senate decides that extraordinary honors are to be devised for those men who are leading armies against him8 ,what1 did not the ,martial legion decide by its resolutions that ,antonius was an enemy before the ,senate had come to any resolution8 ,for if he be not an enemy1 we must inevitably decide that those men who have deserted the consul are enemies4 ,admirably and seasonably1 ,o ,romans1 have you by your cries sanctioned the noble conduct of the men of the ,martial legion1 who have come over to the authority of the ,senate1 to your liberty1 and to the whole republic1 and have abandoned that enemy and robber and parricide of his country4 ,nor did they display only their spirit and courage in doing this1 but their caution and wisdom also4 ,they encamped at ,alba1 in a city convenient1 fortified1 full of brave men and loyal and virtuous citizens4 ,the fourth legion imitated and also joined the army of ,caius ,caesar4 ,what more adverse decisions1 ,o ,marcus ,antonius1 can you want8 ,caesar1 who has levied an army against you1 is extolled to the skies4 ,the legions are praised in the most complimentary manner1 which have abandoned you1 which were sent for into ,italy by you1 and which1 if you had been chosen to be a consul rather than an enemy1 were wholly devoted to you4 ,and the fearless and honest decision of those legions is confirmed by the ,senate and is approved of by the whole ,roman people4 ,do you suppose that the municipal towns and the colonies and the prefectures have any other opinion8 ,all men are agreed with one mind1 so that every one who wishes the ,state to be saved must take every sort of arms against that pestilence4 ,what1 does the opinion of ,decimus ,brutus which has this day reached us appear to any one deserving of being lightly esteemed8 ,the family and name of ,brutus has been by some especial kindness and liberality of the immortal gods given to the republic1 for the purpose of at one time establishing1 and at another of recovering1 the liberty of the ,roman people4 ,what has been the opinion which ,decimus ,brutus has formed of ,marcus ,antonius8 ,he excludes him from his province4 ,he opposes him with his army4 ,he rouses all ,gaul to war1 which is already aroused of its own accord1 and in consequence of the judgment which it has already formed4 ,if ,antonius be consul1 ,brutus is an enemy4 ,can we then doubt which of these alternatives is the fact8 ,and just as you now with one mind and one voice affirm that you entertain no doubt1 so did the ,senate just now decree that ,decimus ,brutus deserved excellently well of the republic1 inasmuch as he was defending the authority of the ,senate and the liberty and empire of the ,roman people4 ,defending it against whom8 ,why1 against an enemy4 ,for what other sort of defense deserves praise8 ,in the next place the province of ,gaul is praised and is deservedly complimented in most honorable language by the ,senate for resisting ,antonius4 ,but if that province considered him the consul1 and still refused to receive him it would be guilty of great wickedness4 ,for all the provinces belong to the consul of right1 and are bound to obey him4 ,decimus ,brutus1 imperator and consul-elect1 a citizen born for the republic1 denies that he is consul4 ,gaul denies it4 ,all ,italy denies it4 ,the ,senate denies it4 ,you deny it4 ,who then thinks he is consul except a few robbers8 ,i think that at present not only men but the immortal gods have all united together to preserve this republic4 ,for if the immortal gods foreshow us the future1 by means of portents and prodigies1 then it has been openly revealed to us that punishment is near at hand to him1 and liberty to us4 ,or if it was impossible for such unanimity on the part of all men to exist without the inspiration of the gods1 in either case how can we doubt as to the inclination of the heavenly deities8 ,i will act therefore as commanders are in the habit of doing when their army is ready for battle1 who although they see their soldiers ready to engage1 still address an exhortation to them2 and in like manner ,i will exhort you who are already eager and burning to recover your liberty4 ,you have not to war against an enemy with whom it is possible to make peace on any terms whatever4 ,for he does not now desire your slavery1 as he did before1 but he is angry now and thirsts for your blood4 ,no sport appears more delightful to him than bloodshed and slaughter and the massacre of citizens before his eyes4 ,you have not1 ,o ,romans1 to deal with a wicked and profligate man1 but with an unnatural1 and savage beast4 ,and since he has fallen into a well let him be buried in it4 ,for if he escapes out of it there will be no inhumanity of torture which it will be possible to avoid4 ,but he is at present hemmed in1 pressed1 and besieged by those troops which we already have1 and will soon be still more so by those which in a few days the new consuls will levy4 ,apply yourselves then to this business1 as you are doing4 ,never have you shown greater unanimity in any cause1 never have you been so cordially united with the ,senate4 ,and no wonder3 for the question now is not in what condition we are to live1 but whether we are to live at all1 or to perish with torture and ignominy4 ,,footnote3 #bg ,taken from the ,fourth ,philippic1 delivered in the ,forum at ,rome4 ,,iii4 ,,saint ,,john ,,chrysostom ,i4 ,,undue ,,lamentations ,,over ,,the ,,dead ,i am ashamed and blush to see unbecoming groups of women pass along the mart1 tearing their hair1 cutting their arms and cheeks1 and all this under the eyes of the ,greeks4 ,for what will they not say8 ,what will they not utter concerning us8 ,are these the men who philosophize about a resurrection8 ,how poorly their actions agree with their opinions6 ,in words they philosophize about a resurrection1 but they act just like those who do not acknowledge a resurrection4 ,if they fully believed in a resurrection they would not act thus2 if they had really persuaded themselves that a deceased friend had departed to a better state they would not thus mourn4 ,these things and more than these1 the unbelievers say when they hear those lamentations4 ,let us then be ashamed1 and be more moderate1 and not occasion so much harm to ourselves and to those who are looking on us4 ,for on what account1 tell me1 do you thus weep for one departed8 ,because he was a bad man8 ,you ought on that very account to be thankful1 since the occasions of wickedness are now cut off4 ,because he was good and kind8 ,if so1 you ought to rejoice1 since he has been soon removed before wickedness had corrupted him2 and he has gone away to a world where he stands ever secure1 and there is no room even to mistrust a change4 ,because he was a youth8 ,for that1 too1 praise ,him who has taken him1 because ,he has speedily called him to a better lot4 ,because he was an aged man8 ,on this account also give thanks and glorify ,him that has taken him4 ,be ashamed of your manner of burial4 ,all this is not that you may weep and lament and afflict yourselves1 but that you may render thanks to ,him who has taken the departed4 ,when men are called to some high office1 multitudes with praises on their lips assemble to escort them at their departure to their stations1 so do all with abundant praise join to send forward1 as to a greater honor1 those of the pious who have departed4 ,death is rest1 a deliverance from the exhausting labors and cares of this world4 ,when1 then1 thou seest a relative departing yield not to despondency2 give thyself to reflection2 examine thy conscience2 cherish the thought that after a little while this end awaits thee also4 ,be more considerate2 let another's death excite thee to salutary fear2 shake off all indolence2 examine your past deeds2 quit your sins and commence a happy change4 ,we differ from unbelievers in our estimate of things4 ,the unbeliever surveys the heaven and worships it1 because he thinks it a divinity2 he looks to the earth and makes himself a servant to it1 and longs for the things of sense4 ,but not so with us4 ,we survey the heaven and admire ,him that made it1 for we believe it not to be a god1 but a work of ,god4 ,i look on the whole creation1 and am led by it to the ,creator4 ,he looks on wealth and longs for and laments2 ,i see poverty and rejoice4 ,i see things in one light1 he in another4 ,just so in regard to death4 ,he sees a corpse and thinks of it as a corpse2 ,i see a corpse and behold sleep rather than death4 ,and as in regard to books1 both learned persons and unlearned see them with the same eyes1 but not with the same understanding4 ,to the unlearned the mere shapes of letters appear1 while the learned discover the sense that lies within those letters4 ,so in respect to affairs in general1 we all see what takes place with the same eyes1 but not with the same understanding and judgment4 ,since1 therefore1 in all other things we differ from them1 shall we agree with them in our sentiments respecting death8 ,consider to whom the departed has gone4 ,he has gone where ,paul is1 and the whole company of the saints4 ,consider how he shall arise1 with what glory and with what splendor4 ,,ii4 ,,on ,,applauding ,,preachers ,it is a mischief when one who teaches will in words impugn the teachings by his deeds4 ,this has been the cause of many evils in the churches4 ,wherefore pardon me1 ,i beseech you1 if my discourse dwells long on this evil affection4 ,many take a great deal of pains to be able to stand up in public and make a long speech2 and if they get applause from the multitude1 it is to them as if they had gained the very kingdom of heaven2 but if silence follows the close of their speech the defection that falls upon their spirits from the silence is worse than hell itself4 ,this has turned the churches upside down1 because you desire not to hear a discourse calculated to lead to compunction1 but one that may delight you from the sound and composition of the words1 as though you were listening to singers and minstrels4 ,when we idly busy ourselves about beautiful expressions and the composition and harmony of our sentences in order that we might not profit2 when we make it our aim to be admired1 not to instruct2 to delight1 not prick to the heart2 to be applauded and depart with praise1 not to correct men's manners1 we do wrong4 ,believe me1 ,i speak what ,i feel1 when as ,i discourse1 ,i hear myself applauded1 at the moment ,i feel it as a man2 ,i am delighted and give way to the pleasurable feeling2 but when ,i get home and bethink me that those who applauded received no benefit from my discourse1 but whatever benefit they ought to have got they lost it while applauding and praising1 ,i am in pain1 and groan and weep1 and feel as if ,i had spoken all in vain4 ,i say to myself what profit comes to me from my labors1 while the hearers do not choose to benefit by what they hear from me8 ,even the heathen philosophers--we hear of their discoursing1 and nowhere do we find that noisy applause accompanied their words2 we hear of the apostles making public speeches1 and yet nowhere do the accounts add that in the midst of their discourses the hearers interrupted the speaker with loud expressions of approbation4 ,christ spoke publicly on the mount1 yet no one said aught until ,he had finished ,his discourse4 ,how shall the hearer be otherwise than ridiculous8 ,nay1 he will be deemed a flatterer and his praise no better than irony1 when he declares that the teacher spoke beautifully2 but what he said1 this he cannot tell4 ,this has all the appearance of adulation4 ,for when1 indeed1 one has been hearing minstrels and players1 it is no wonder if such has been the case with him1 seeing he looks not how to utter the strain in the same manner2 but where the matter is not an exhibition of song or of voice1 but the drift and purport of thoughts and wise reflections1 and it is easy for every one to tell and report what was said1 how can he but deserve the accusation1 who cannot tell what the matter was for which he praised the speaker8 ,nothing so becomes the church as silence and good order4 ,noise belongs to the theaters1 and baths1 and public processions1 and market-places2 but where doctrines1 and such doctrines1 are the subject of teaching1 there should be stillness and quiet1 and calm reflection1 and a haven of much repose4 ,these things ,i beseech and entreat2 for ,i go about in quest of ways by which ,i shall be enabled to profit your souls4 ,and no small way ,i take this to be2 it will profit not you only1 but us also4 ,so shall we not be carried away with pride1 not be tempted to love praises and honor1 not be led to speak those things which delight1 but those things that profit3 so shall we lay the whole stress of our time and diligence1 not upon arts of composition and beauties of expression1 but upon the matter and meaning of the thoughts4 ,is not all nature decked with stillness and silence8 ,over all the face of heaven is scattered the charm of repose4 ,on this account we are evil spoken of even among the ,gentiles1 as though we did all for display and ostentation4 ,but if this be prevented the love of the chief seats will also be extinguished4 ,it is sufficient1 if any one be enamored of praise1 that he should obtain it after having been heard1 when all is gathered in4 ,yea1 ,i beseech you that doing all things according to ,god's will1 we may be found worthy of the mercy which is from ,him1 through the grace and compassion of ,his only ,son4 ,,iv4 ,,jacques ,,benigne ,,bossuet ,,on ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,the ,,prince ,,of ,,conde ,our lamentations ought to break forth at the loss of so great a man4 ,but for the love of truth and the shame of those who despise it1 listen once more to that noble testimony which he bore to it in dying4 ,informed by his confessor that if our heart is not entirely right with ,god1 we must1 in our addresses1 ask ,god ,himself to make it such as ,he pleases1 and address ,him in the affecting language of ,david1 ,o ,god1 create in me a clean heart1 the ,prince is arrested by the words1 pauses1 as if occupied with some great thought2 then calling the ecclesiastic who had suggested the idea1 he says3 ,i have never doubted the mysteries of religion1 as some have reported4 ,christians1 you ought to believe him1 for in the state he then was he owed to the world nothing but truth4 ,what was then taking place in his soul8 ,what new light dawned upon him8 ,what sudden ray pierced the cloud1 and instantly dissipated1 not only all the darkness of sense1 but the very shadows1 and if ,i dare to say it1 the sacred obscurities of faith8 ,what then became of those splendid titles by which our pride is flattered8 ,on the very verge of glory1 and in the dawning of a light so beautiful1 how rapidly vanish the phantoms of the world6 ,how dim appears the splendor of the most glorious victory6 ,how profoundly we despise the glory of the world1 and how deeply regret that our eyes were ever dazzled by its radiance6 ,come1 ye people1 or rather ye princes and lords1 ye judges of the earth1 and ye who open to man the portals of heaven2 and more than all others1 ye princes and princesses1 nobles descended from a long line of kings1 lights of ,france1 but to-day in gloom1 and covered with your grief1 as with a cloud1 come and see how little remains of a birth so august1 a grandeur so high1 a glory so dazzling4 ,look around on all sides1 and see all that magnificence and devotion can do to honor so great a hero2 titles and inscriptions1 vain signs of that which is no more--shadows which weep around a tomb1 fragile images of a grief which time sweeps away with everything else2 columns which seem as if they would bear to heaven the magnificent evidence of our emptiness2 nothing1 indeed1 is wanting in all these honors but him to whom they are rendered6 ,weep then over these feeble remains of human life2 weep over that mournful immortality we give to heroes4 ,but draw near1 especially ye who run with such ardor the career of glory1 intrepid and warrior spirits6 ,who was more worthy to command you1 and in whom did you find command more honorable8 ,mourn then that great captain1 and weeping1 say3 ,here is the man that led us through all hazards1 under whom were formed so many renowned captains1 raised by his example to the highest honors of war2 his shadow might yet gain battles1 and lo6 in his silence his very name animates us1 and at the same time warns us1 that to find at death some rest from our toils1 and not arrive unprepared at our eternal dwelling1 we must1 with an earthly king1 yet serve the king of heaven4 ,serve then that immortal and ever merciful ,king1 who will value a sigh or a cup of cold water1 given in ,his name1 more than all others will value the shedding of your blood4 ,and begin to reckon the time of your useful services from the day on which you gave yourselves to so beneficent a ,master4 ,will not ye too come1 ye whom he honored by making you his friends8 ,to whatever extent you enjoyed his confidence1 come all of you1 and surround his tomb4 ,mingle your prayers with your tears2 and while admiring1 in so great a prince1 a friendship so excellent1 an intercourse so sweet1 preserve the remembrance of a hero whose goodness equaled his courage4 ,thus may he ever prove your cherished instructor2 thus may you profit by his virtues2 and may his death1 which you deplore1 serve you at once for consolation and example4 ,for myself1 if permitted1 after all others1 to render the last offices at his tomb1 ,o ,prince1 the worthy subject of our praises and regrets1 thou wilt live forever in my memory4 ,there will thy image be traced1 but not with that bold aspect which promises victory4 ,no1 ,i would see in you nothing which death can efface4 ,you will have in that image only immortal traits4 ,i shall behold you such as you were in your last hours under the hand of ,god1 when ,his glory began to dawn upon you4 ,there shall ,i see you more triumphant than at ,fribourg and at ,rocroy2 and ravished by so glorious a triumph1 ,i shall give thanks in the beautiful words of the well-beloved disciple1 ,this is the victory that overcometh the world1 even our faith4 ,enjoy1 ,o ,prince1 this victory1 enjoy it forever1 through the everlasting efficacy of that sacrifice4 ,v4 ,,william ,,pitt1 ,,earl ,,of ,,chatham ,i4 ,,war ,,with ,,america#bh ,i will not join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace4 ,i cannot concur in a blind and servile address1 which approves and endeavors to sanctify the monstrous measures which have heaped disgrace and misfortune upon us4 ,this1 my lords1 is a perilous and tremendous moment6 ,it is not a time for adulation4 ,the smoothness of flattery cannot now avail2 cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis4 ,it is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth4 ,we must dispel the illusion and the darkness which envelop it1 and display1 in its full danger and true colors1 the ruin that is brought to our doors4 ,can the minister of the day now presume to expect a continuance of support in this ruinous infatuation8 ,can ,parliament be so dead to its dignity and its duty as to be thus deluded into the loss of the one and the violation of the other8 ,to give an unlimited credit and support for the steady perseverance in measures not proposed for our parliamentary advice1 but dictated and forced upon us--in measures which have reduced this late flourishing empire to ruin and contempt6 ,but yesterday and ,england might have stood against the world2 now none so poor to do her reverence4 ,it is a shameful truth that not only the power and strength of this country are wasting away and expiring1 but her well-earned glories1 her true honor and substantial dignity1 are sacrificed4 ,my lords1 this ruinous and ignominious situation1 where we cannot act with success1 nor suffer with honor1 calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth1 to rescue the ear of ,majesty from the delusions which surround it4 ,the desperate state of our arms abroad is in part known4 ,no man thinks more highly of them than ,i do4 ,i love and honor the ,english troops4 ,i know their virtues and their valor4 ,i know they can achieve anything except impossibilities2 and ,i know that the conquest of ,english ,america is an impossibility4 ,you cannot1 ,i venture to say it1 you cannot conquer ,america4 ,your armies in the last war effected everything that could be effected2 and what was it8 ,it cost a numerous army1 under the command of a most able general1 a long and laborious campaign1 to expel five thousand ,frenchmen from ,french ,america4 ,my lords1 you cannot conquer ,america4 ,what is your present situation there8 ,we do not know the worst2 but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much4 ,besides the sufferings1 perhaps total loss1 of the northern force1 the best-appointed army that ever took the field1 commanded by ,sir ,william ,howe1 has retired from the ,american lines4 ,as to conquest1 ,i repeat1 it is impossible4 ,you may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly2 pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow2 traffic and barter with every little pitiful ,german prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince2 your efforts are forever vain and impotent--doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely2 for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies1 to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder1 devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty6 ,if ,i were an ,american1 as ,i am an ,englishman1 while a foreign troop was landed in my country1 ,i never would lay down my arms--never--never--never4 ,,footnote3 #bh ,delivered in the ,house of ,lords1 ,nov4 #ah1 #aggg4 ,,ii4 ,,attempt ,,to ,,subjugate ,,america ,my lords1 no man wishes for the due dependence of ,america on this country more than ,i do4 ,to preserve it1 and not confirm that state of independence into which your measures hitherto have driven them1 is the object which we ought to unite in attaining4 ,the ,americans1 contending for their rights against arbitrary exactions1 ,i love and admire4 ,it is the struggle of free and virtuous patriots4 ,america was indeed the fountain of our wealth1 the nerve of our strength1 the nursery and basis of our naval power4 ,it is our duty1 therefore1 my lords1 if we wish to save our country1 most seriously to endeavor the recovery of these most beneficial subjects2 and in this perilous crisis1 perhaps the present moment may be the only one in which we can hope for success4 ,i would impart to them every enjoyment and freedom which the colonizing subjects of a free state can possess1 or wish to possess2 and ,i do not see why they should not enjoy every fundamental right in their property1 and every original substantial liberty1 which ,devonshire or ,surrey1 or the county ,i live in1 or any other county in ,england1 can claim2 reserving always as the sacred right of the mother country the due constitutional dependency of the colonies4 ,the inherent supremacy of the state in regulating and protecting the navigation and commerce of all her subjects is necessary for the mutual benefit and preservation of every part1 to constitute and preserve the prosperous arrangement of the whole empire4 ,you cannot conciliate ,america by your present measures4 ,you cannot subdue her by your present1 or by any measures4 ,what1 then1 can you do8 ,you cannot conquer1 you cannot gain1 but you can address2 you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them4 ,but1 my lords1 the time demands the language of truth4 ,we must not now apply the flattering unction of servile compliance or blind complaisance4 ,in a just and necessary war to maintain the rights or honor of my country1 ,i would strip the shirt from my back to support it4 ,but in such a war as this1 unjust in principle1 impracticable in its means1 and ruinous in its consequences1 ,i would not contribute a single effort1 nor a single shilling4 ,i do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guilty2 ,i only recommend to them to make their retreat2 and let them make haste1 or they may be assured that speedy and condign punishment will overtake them4 ,my lords1 ,i have submitted to you1 with the freedom and truth which ,i think my duty1 my sentiments on this awful situation4 ,i have laid before you the ruin of your power1 the disgrace of your reputation1 the pollution of your discipline1 the contamination of your morals1 the complication of calamities1 foreign and domestic1 that overwhelm your sinking country4 ,your dearest interests1 your own liberties1 the constitution itself1 totters to the foundation4 ,all this disgraceful danger1 this multitude of misery1 is the monstrous offspring of this unnatural war4 ,we have been deceived and deluded too long4 ,let us now stop short4 ,this is the crisis1 the only crisis of time and situation1 to give us a possibility of escape from the fatal effects of our delusions4 ,but if1 in an obstinate and infatuated perseverance in folly1 we slavishly echo the peremptory words this day presented to us1 nothing can save this devoted country from complete and final ruin4 ,is it possible1 can it be believed1 that ministers are yet blind to this impending destruction8 ,i did hope that instead of this false and empty vanity1 this overweening pride1 that ministers would have humbled themselves in their errors1 would have confessed and retracted them1 and by an active though a late repentance1 have endeavored to redeem them4 ,but1 my lords1 since they had neither sagacity to foresee1 nor justice nor humanity to shun1 these oppressive calamities2 since not even severe experience can make them feel1 nor the imminent ruin of their country awaken them from their stupefaction1 the guardian care of ,parliament must interpose4 ,i shall1 therefore1 my lords1 propose an amendment to the address to his ,majesty1 to recommend an immediate cessation of hostilities and the commencement of a treaty to restore peace and liberty to ,america1 strength and happiness to ,england1 security and permanent prosperity to both countries4 ,,vi4 ,,edmund ,,burke ,i4 ,,impeachment ,,of ,,hastings#bi ,my lords1 you have now heard the principles on which ,mr4 ,hastings governs the part of ,asia subjected to the ,british empire4 ,here he has declared his opinion1 that he is a despotic prince2 that he is to use arbitrary power2 and1 of course1 all his acts are covered with that shield4 ,i know1 says he1 the ,constitution of ,asia only from its practice4 ,will your lordships submit to hear the corrupt practices of mankind made the principles of ,government8 ,he have arbitrary power6 ,my lords1 the ,east ,india ,company have not arbitrary power to give him2 the ,king has no arbitrary power to give him2 your lordships have not2 nor the ,commons2 nor the whole ,legislature4 ,we have no arbitrary power to give1 because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give4 ,no man can lawfully govern himself according to his own will1 much less can one person be governed by the will of another4 ,we are all born in subjection1 all born equally1 high and low1 governors and governed1 in subjection to one great1 immutable1 preexistent law1 prior to all our devices1 and prior to all our contrivances1 paramount to all our ideas1 and all our sensations1 antecedent to our very existence1 by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe1 out of which we cannot stir4 ,this great law does not arise from our conventions or compacts2 on the contrary1 it gives to our conventions and compacts all the force and sanction they can have2--it does not arise from our vain institutions4 ,every good gift is of ,god2 all power is of ,god2--and ,he1 who has given the power1 and from whom alone it originates1 will never suffer the exercise of it to be practiced upon any less solid foundation than the power itself4 ,if then all dominion of man over man is the effect of the divine disposition1 it is bound by the eternal laws of ,him that gave it1 with which no human authority can dispense2 neither he that exercises it1 nor even those who are subject to it4 ,and if they were mad enough to make an express compact that should release their magistrate from his duty1 and should declare their lives1 liberties1 and properties dependent upon1 not rules and laws1 but his mere capricious will1 that covenant would be void4 ,this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest4 ,nor can any sovereign have it by succession2 for no man can succeed to fraud1 rapine1 and violence4 ,those who give and those who receive arbitrary power are alike criminal2 and there is no man but is bound to resist it to the best of his power1 wherever it shall show its face to the world4 ,law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity4 ,name me a magistrate1 and ,i will name property2 name me power1 and ,i will name protection4 ,it is a contradiction in terms2 it is blasphemy in religion1 it is wickedness in politics1 to say that any man can have arbitrary power4 ,in every patent of office the duty is included4 ,for what else does a magistrate exist8 ,to suppose for power1 is an absurdity in idea4 ,judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice1 to which we are all subject4 ,we may bite our chains1 if we will2 but we shall be made to know ourselves1 and be taught that man is born to be governed by law2 and he that will substitute will in the place of it1 is an enemy to ,god4 ,my lords1 ,i do not mean to go further than just to remind your lordships of this1--that ,mr4 ,hastings' government was one whole system of oppression1 of robbery of individuals1 of spoliation of the public1 and of supersession of the whole system of the ,english ,government1 in order to vest in the worst of the natives all the power that could possibly exist in any government2 in order to defeat the ends which all governments ought1 in common1 to have in view4 ,in the name of the ,commons of ,england1 ,i charge all this villainy upon ,warren ,hastings in this last moment of my application to you4 ,my lords1 what is it that we want here to a great act of national justice8 ,do we want a cause1 my lords8 ,you have the cause of oppressed princes1 of desolated provinces1 and of wasted kingdoms4 ,do you want a criminal1 my lords8 ,when was there so much iniquity ever laid to the charge of any one8 ,no1 my lords1 you must not look to punish any other such delinquent from ,india4 ,warren ,hastings has not left substance enough in ,india to nourish such another delinquent4 ,therefore1 it is with confidence that1 ordered by the ,commons of ,great ,britain1 ,i impeach ,warren ,hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors4 ,i impeach him in the name of the ,commons of ,great ,britain in ,parliament assembled1 whose parliamentary trust he has abused4 ,i impeach him in the name of the ,commons of ,great ,britain1 whose national character he has dishonored4 ,i impeach him in the name of the people of ,india1 whose laws1 rights and liberties he has subverted4 ,i impeach him in the name of the people of ,india1 whose property he has destroyed1 whose country he has laid waste and desolate4 ,i impeach him in the name of human nature itself1 which he has cruelly outraged1 injured and oppressed1 in both sexes4 ,and ,i impeach him in the name and by the virtue of those eternal laws of justice1 which ought equally to pervade every age1 condition1 rank1 and situation in the world4 ,,footnote3 #bi ,on the #aeth of ,february1 #aghh1 ,edmund ,burke began a four days' speech in the impeachment of ,warren ,hastings4 ,,ii4 ,,conciliation ,,with ,,america#cj ,sir1 ,i have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government2 nor of any politics in which the plan is to be wholly separated from the execution4 ,but when ,i saw that anger and violence prevailed every day more and more1 and that things were hastening towards an incurable alienation of our colonies1 ,i confess my caution gave way4 ,i felt this as one of those few moments in which decorum yields to a higher duty4 ,public calamity is a mighty leveler2 and there are occasions when any chance of doing good must be laid hold on1 even by the most inconsiderable person4 ,to restore order and repose to an empire so great and so distracted as ours1 is1 merely in the attempt1 an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius1 and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest understanding4 ,the proposition is peace4 ,not peace through the medium of war2 not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations2 not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented1 from principle1 in all parts of the empire4 ,it is simple peace2 sought in its natural course1 and in its ordinary haunts4 ,it is peace sought in the spirit of peace1 and laid in principles purely pacific4 ,i propose1 by removing the ground of the difference1 and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the ,mother ,country1 to give permanent satisfaction to your people2 and to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to ,british government4 ,the principle of this proceeding is large enough for my purpose4 ,i mean to give peace4 ,peace implies reconciliation2 and where there has been a material dispute1 reconciliation does in a manner always imply concession on the one part or on the other4 ,in this state of things ,i make no difficulty in affirming that the proposal ought to originate from us4 ,great and acknowledged force is not impaired1 either in effect or in opinion1 by an unwillingness to exert itself4 ,the superior power may offer peace with honor and with safety4 ,such an offer from such a power will be attributed to magnanimity4 ,but the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear4 ,when such an one is disarmed1 he is wholly at the mercy of his superior2 and he loses forever that time and those chances1 which1 as they happen to all men1 are the strength and resources of all inferior power4 ,the leading questions on which you must this day decide1 are these two3 ,first1 whether you ought to concede2 and secondly1 what your concession ought to be4 ,on the first of these questions we have gained some ground4 ,but ,i am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done4 ,indeed1 ,sir1 to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment1 ,i think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us2 because after all our struggle1 whether we will or not1 we must govern ,america according to that nature and to those circumstances1 and not according to our own imaginations1 nor according to abstract ideas of right4 ,america1 gentlemen say1 is a noble object4 ,it is an object well worth fighting for4 ,certainly it is1 if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them4 ,gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits4 ,those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection for it4 ,those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms4 ,but ,i confess my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force4 ,the use of force alone is but temporary4 ,it may subdue for a moment1 but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again2 and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered4 ,my next objection is its uncertainty4 ,terror is not always the effect of force1 and an armament is not a victory4 ,if you do not succeed1 you are without resource2 for1 conciliation failing1 force remains2 but1 force failing1 no further hope of reconciliation is left4 ,power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness2 but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence4 ,nothing less will content me than whole ,america4 ,i do not choose to consume its strength along with our own1 because in all parts it is the ,british strength that ,i consume4 ,i do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict2 and still less in the midst of it4 ,i may escape2 but ,i can make no insurance against such an event4 ,let me add1 that ,i do not choose to break the ,american spirit2 because it is the spirit that has made the country4 ,in the character of the ,americans1 a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole2 and as an ardent is always a jealous affection1 your colonies become suspicious1 restive1 and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force1 or shuffle from them by chicanery1 what they think the only advantage worth living for4 ,this fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the ,english colonies probably than in any other people of the earth4 ,sir1 from these six sources--of descent1 of form of government1 of religion in the northern provinces1 of manners in the southern1 of education1 of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government--from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up4 ,it has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies1 and increased with the increase of their wealth2 a spirit that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in ,england which1 however lawful1 is not reconcilable to any ideas of liberty1 has kindled this flame that is ready to consume us4 ,i am much against any further experiments which tend to put to the proof any more of these allowed opinions which contribute so much to the public tranquillity4 ,in effect1 we suffer as much at home by this loosening of all ties1 and this concussion of all established opinions1 as we do abroad2 for in order to prove that the ,americans have no right to their liberties1 we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own4 ,to prove that the ,americans ought not to be free1 we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself2 and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate without attacking some of those principles1 or deriding some of those feelings1 for which our ancestors have shed their blood4 ,the temper and character which prevail in our colonies are1 ,i am afraid1 unalterable by any human art4 ,we cannot1 ,i fear1 falsify the pedigree of this fierce people1 and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates4 ,the language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the imposition2 your speech would betray you4 ,an ,englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another ,englishman into slavery4 ,but let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over4 ,the ocean remains4 ,you cannot pump this dry2 and as long as it continues in its present bed1 so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue4 ,if1 then1 the removal of the causes of this spirit of ,american liberty be for the greater part1 or rather entirely1 impracticable2 if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable--or1 if applicable1 are in the highest degree inexpedient--what way yet remains8 ,no way is open but to comply with the ,american spirit as necessary2 or1 if you please1 to submit to it as a necessary evil4 ,,footnote3 #cj ,delivered in the ,house of ,commons1 ,march #bb1 #agge4 ,,iii4 ,,english ,,privileges ,,in ,,america ,reflect1 sirs1 that when you have fixed a quota of taxation for every colony1 you have not provided for prompt and punctual payment4 ,you must make new ,boston ,port ,bills1 new restraining laws1 new acts for dragging men to ,england for trial4 ,you must send out new fleets1 new armies4 ,all is to begin again4 ,from this day forward the empire is never to know an hour's tranquillity4 ,an intestine fire will be kept alive in the bowels of the colonies1 which one time or other must consume this whole empire4 ,instead of a standing revenue1 you will therefore have a perpetual quarrel4 ,indeed1 the noble lord who proposed this project seems himself to be of that opinion4 ,his project was rather designed for breaking the union of the colonies than for establishing a revenue4 ,but whatever his views may be1 as ,i propose the peace and union of the colonies as the very foundation of my plan1 it cannot accord with one whose foundation is perpetual discord4 ,compare the two4 ,this ,i offer to give you is plain and simple2 the other full of perplexed and intricate mazes4 ,this is mild2 that harsh4 ,this is found by experience effectual for its purposes2 the other is a new project4 ,this is universal2 the other calculated for certain colonies only4 ,this is immediate in its conciliatory operation2 the other remote1 contingent1 full of hazard4 ,mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people--gratuitous1 unconditional1 and not held out as a matter of bargain and sale4 ,i have done my duty in proposing it to you4 ,i have indeed tired you by a long discourse2 but this is the misfortune of those to whose influence nothing will be conceded1 and who must win every inch of their ground by argument4 ,you have heard me with goodness4 ,may you decide with wisdom6 ,for my part1 ,i feel my mind greatly disburdened by what ,i have done to-day4 ,i have been the less fearful of trying your patience1 because1 on this subject1 ,i mean to spare it altogether in future4 ,i have this comfort1 that in every stage of the ,american affairs ,i have steadily opposed the measures that have produced the confusion1 and may bring on the destruction1 of this empire4 ,i now go so far as to risk a proposal of my own4 ,if ,i cannot give peace to my country1 ,i give it to my conscience4 ,my hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names1 from kindred blood1 from similar privileges1 and equal protection4 ,these are ties which1 though light as air1 are as strong as links of iron4 ,let the colonists always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government1--they will cling and grapple to you1 and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance4 ,but let it be once understood that your government may be one thing1 and their privileges another1 that these two things may exist without any mutual relation1 the cement is gone--the cohesion is loosened--and everything hastens to decay and dissolution4 ,as long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty1 the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith1 wherever the chosen race and sons of ,england worship freedom1 they will turn their faces towards you4 ,the more they multiply1 the more friends you will have2 the more ardently they love liberty1 the more perfect will be their obedience4 ,until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity1 freedom they can have from none but you4 ,this is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly4 ,this is the true ,act of ,navigation which binds to you the commerce of the colonies1 and through them secures to you the wealth of the world4 ,deny them this participation of freedom1 and you break that sole bond which originally made1 and must still preserve1 the unity of the empire4 ,do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds1 your affidavits and your sufferances1 are what form the great securities of your commerce4 ,do not dream that your letters of office1 and your instructions1 are the things that hold together the great contexture of the mysterious whole4 ,these things do not make your government4 ,dead instruments1 passive tools as they are1 it is the spirit of the ,english communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them4 ,it is the spirit of the ,english ,constitution which1 infused through the mighty mass1 pervades1 feeds1 unites1 invigorates1 vivifies every part of the empire1 even down to the minutest member4 ,is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in ,england8 ,it is the love of the people2 it is the attachment to their government1 from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution1 which gives you your army and your navy1 and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble1 and your navy nothing but rotten timber4 ,all this1 ,i know well enough1 will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us2 a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material1 and who1 therefore1 far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire1 are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine4 ,but to men truly initiated and rightly taught1 these ruling and master principles which1 in the opinion of such men as ,i have mentioned1 have no substantial existence1 are in truth everything1 and all in all4 ,magnanimity in politics is the truest wisdom2 and a great empire and little minds go ill together4 ,we ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of providence has called us4 ,by adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire1 and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests--not by destroying1 but by promoting the wealth1 the number1 the happiness1 of the human race4 ,let us get an ,american revenue as we have got an ,american empire4 ,english privileges have made it all that it is2 ,english privileges alone will make it all it can be4 ,,vii4 ,,daniel ,,webster ,i4 ,,bunker ,,hill ,,monument ,this uncounted multitude before me and around me proves the feeling which the occasion has excited4 ,these thousands of human faces1 glowing with sympathy and joy1 and from the impulses of a common gratitude turned reverently to heaven in this spacious temple of the firmament1 proclaim that the day1 the place and the purpose of our assembling have made a deep impression on our hearts4 ,if1 indeed1 there be anything in local association fit to affect the mind of man1 we need not strive to repress the emotions which agitate us here4 ,we are among the sepulchers of our fathers4 ,we are on ground1 distinguished by their valor1 their constancy and the shedding of their blood4 ,we are here1 not to fix an uncertain date in our annals1 nor draw into notice an obscure and unknown spot4 ,if our humble purpose had never been conceived1 if we ourselves had never been born1 the #agth of ,june1 #agge1 would have been a day on which all subsequent history would have poured its light1 and the eminence where we stand a point of attraction to the eyes of successive generations4 ,but we are ,americans4 ,we live in what may be called the early age of this great continent2 and we know that our posterity1 through all time1 are here to enjoy and suffer the allotments of humanity4 ,we see before us a probable train of great events2 we know that our own fortunes have been happily cast2 and it is natural1 therefore1 that we should be moved by the contemplation of occurrences which have guided our destiny before many of us were born1 and settled the condition in which we should pass that portion of our existence which ,god allows to men on earth4 ,but the great event in the history of the continent1 which we are now met here to commemorate1 that prodigy of modern times1 at once the wonder and the blessing of the world1 is the ,american ,revolution4 ,in a day of extraordinary prosperity and happiness1 of high national honor1 distinction1 and power1 we are brought together1 in this place1 by our love of country1 by our admiration of exalted character1 by our gratitude for signal services and patriotic devotion4 ,the ,society whose organ ,i am was formed for the purpose of rearing some honorable and durable monument to the memory of the early friends of ,american ,independence4 ,they have thought1 that for this object no time could be more propitious than the present prosperous and peaceful period2 that no place could claim preference over this memorable spot2 and that no day could be more auspicious to the undertaking1 than the anniversary of the battle which was here fought4 ,the foundation of that monument we have now laid4 ,with solemnities suited to the occasion1 with prayers to ,almighty ,god for his blessing1 and in the midst of this cloud of witnesses1 we have begun the work4 ,we trust it will be prosecuted1 and that1 springing from a broad foundation1 rising high in massive solidity and unadorned grandeur1 it may remain as long as heaven permits the works of man to last1 a fit emblem1 both of the events in memory of which it is raised1 and of the gratitude of those who have reared it4 ,we know1 indeed1 that the record of illustrious actions is most safely deposited in the universal remembrance of mankind4 ,we know1 that if we could cause this structure to ascend1 not only till it reached the skies1 but till it pierced them1 its broad surfaces could still contain but part of that which1 in an age of knowledge1 hath already been spread over the earth1 and which history charges itself with making known to all future times4 ,we know that no inscription on entablatures less broad than the earth itself can carry information of the events we commemorate where it has not already gone2 and that no structure1 which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men1 can prolong the memorial4 ,but our object is1 by this edifice1 to show our own deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors2 and1 by presenting this work of gratitude to the eye1 to keep alive similar sentiments1 and to foster a constant regard for the principles of the ,revolution4 ,human beings are composed1 not of reason only1 but of imagination also1 and sentiment2 and that is neither wasted nor misapplied which is appropriated to the purpose of giving right direction to sentiments1 and opening proper springs of feeling in the heart4 ,let it not be supposed that our object is to perpetuate national hostility1 or even to cherish a mere military spirit4 ,it is higher1 purer1 nobler4 ,we consecrate our work to the spirit of national independence1 and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever4 ,we rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit which has been conferred on our own land1 and of the happy influences which have been produced1 by the same events1 on the general interests of mankind4 ,we come1 as ,americans1 to mark a spot which must forever be dear to us and our posterity4 ,we wish that whosoever1 in all coming time1 shall turn his eye hither1 may behold that the place is not undistinguished where the first great battle of the ,revolution was fought4 ,we wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age4 ,we wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips1 and that weary and withered age may behold it1 and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests4 ,we wish that labor may look up here1 and be proud1 in the midst of its toil4 ,we wish that1 in those days of disaster1 which1 as they come upon all nations1 must be expected to come upon us also1 desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward1 and be assured that the foundations of our national power are still strong4 ,we wish that this column1 rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to ,god1 may contribute also to produce1 in all minds1 a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude4 ,we wish1 finally1 that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore1 and the first to gladden him who revisits it1 may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his country4 ,let it rise6 let it rise1 till it meet the sun in his coming2 let the earliest light of the morning gild it1 and parting day linger and play on its summit4#ca ,,footnote3 #ca ,this and the following extract taken from an address delivered at the laying of the corner-stone of the ,bunker ,hill ,monument1 ,june #ag1 #ahbe4 ,,ii4 ,,revolutionary ,,patriots ,venerable men6 you have come down to us from a former generation4 ,heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives1 that you might behold this joyous day4 ,you are now where you stood fifty years ago1 this very hour1 with your brothers and your neighbors1 shoulder to shoulder1 in the strife for your country4 ,behold1 how altered6 ,the same heavens are indeed over your heads2 the same ocean rolls at your feet2 but all else how changed6 ,you hear now no roar of hostile cannon1 you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning ,charlestown4 ,the ground strewed with the dead and the dying2 the impetuous charge2 the steady and successful repulse2 the loud call to repeated assault2 the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance2 a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death2--all these you have witnessed1 but you witness them no more4 ,all is peace4 ,the heights of yonder metropolis1 its towers and roofs1 which you then saw filled with wives and children and countrymen in distress and terror1 and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat1 have presented you to-day with the sight of the whole happy population1 come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee4 ,yonder proud ships1 by a felicity of position appropriately lying at the foot of this mount1 and seeming fondly to cling around it1 are not means of annoyance to you1 but your country's own means of distinction and defense4 ,all is peace2 and ,god has granted you this sight of your country's happiness1 ere you slumber in the grave4 ,he has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils2 and he has allowed us1 your sons and countrymen1 to meet you here1 and in the name of the present generation1 in the name of your country1 in the name of liberty1 to thank you6 ,but1 alas6 you are not all here6 ,time and the sword have thinned your ranks4 ,prescott1 ,putnam1 ,stark1 ,brooks1 ,read1 ,pomeroy1 ,bridge6 our eyes seek for you in vain amid this broken band4 ,you are gathered to your fathers1 and live only to your own country in her grateful remembrance and your own bright example4 ,but let us not too much grieve1 that you have met the common fate of men4 ,you lived at least long enough to know that your work had been nobly and successfully accomplished4 ,you lived to see your country's independence established1 and to sheathe your swords from war4 ,on the light of ,liberty you saw arise the light of peace1 like another morn1 ,risen on mid-noon2 and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless4 ,but1 ah6 ,him6 the first great martyr in this great cause6 ,him6 the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart6 ,him6 the head of our civil councils1 and the destined leader of our military bands1 whom nothing brought hither but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit6 ,him6 cut off by ,providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom2 falling ere he saw the star of his country rise2 pouring out his generous blood like water1 before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage6--how shall ,i struggle with the emotions that stifle the utterance of thy name6 ,our poor work may perish2 but thine shall endure6 ,this monument may molder away2 the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea2 but thy memory shall not fail6 ,wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty1 its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit4 ,veterans6 you are the remnant of many a well-fought field4 ,you bring with you marks of honor from ,trenton and ,monmouth1 from ,yorktown1 ,camden1 ,bennington1 and ,saratoga4 ,veterans of half a century6 when in your youthful days you put everything at hazard in your country's cause1 good as that cause was1 and sanguine as youth is1 still your fondest hopes did not stretch onward to an hour like this6 ,at a period to which you could not reasonably have expected to arrive1 at a moment of national prosperity such as you could never have foreseen1 you are now met here to enjoy the fellowship of old soldiers1 and to receive the overflowings of a universal gratitude4 ,but your agitated countenances and your heaving breasts inform me that even this is not an unmixed joy4 ,i perceive that a tumult of contending feelings rushes upon you4 ,the images of the dead1 as well as the persons of the living1 present themselves before you4 ,the scene overwhelms you1 and ,i turn from it4 ,may the ,father of all mercies smile upon your declining years1 and bless them6 ,and when you shall here have exchanged your embraces1 when you shall once more have pressed the hands which have been so often extended to give succor in adversity1 or grasped in the exultation of victory1 then look abroad upon this lovely land which your young valor defended1 and mark the happiness with which it is filled2 yea1 look abroad upon the whole earth1 and see what a name you have contributed to give your country1 and what a praise you have added to freedom1 and then rejoice in the sympathy and gratitude which beam upon your last days from the improved condition of mankind6 ,,iii4 ,,character ,,of ,,washington#cb ,america has furnished to the world the character of ,washington6 ,and if our ,american institutions had done nothing else1 that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind4 ,washington6 ,first in war1 first in peace1 and first in the hearts of his countrymen6 ,washington is all our own6 ,the enthusiastic veneration and regard in which the people of the ,united ,states hold him1 prove them to be worthy of such a countryman2 while his reputation abroad reflects the highest honor on his country4 ,i would cheerfully put the question to-day to the intelligence of ,europe and the world1 what character of the century1 upon the whole1 stands out in the relief of history1 most pure1 most respectable1 most sublime2 and ,i doubt not1 that1 by a suffrage approaching to unanimity1 the answer would be ,washington6 ,the structure now standing before us1 by its uprightness1 its solidity1 its durability1 is no unfit emblem of his character4 ,his public virtues and public principles were as firm as the earth on which it stands2 his personal motives1 as pure as the serene heaven in which its summit is lost4 ,but1 indeed1 though a fit1 it is an inadequate emblem4 ,towering high above the column which our hands have builded1 beheld1 not by the inhabitants of a single city or a single ,state1 but by all the families of man1 ascends the colossal grandeur of the character and life of ,washington4 ,in all the constituents of the one1 in all the acts of the other1 in all its titles to immortal love1 admiration1 and renown1 it is an ,american production4 ,it is the embodiment and vindication of our transatlantic liberty4 ,born upon our soil1 of parents also born upon it2 never for a moment having had sight of the ,old ,world2 instructed1 according to the modes of his time1 only in the spare1 plain1 but wholesome elementary knowledge which our institutions provide for the children of the people2 growing up beneath and penetrated by the genuine influences of ,american society2 living from infancy to manhood and age amidst our expanding1 but not luxurious civilization2 partaking in our great destiny of labor1 our long contest with unreclaimed nature and uncivilized man1 our agony of glory1 the war of ,independence1 our great victory of peace1 the formation of the ,union1 and the establishment of the ,constitution1--he is all1 all our own6 ,washington is ours4 ,i claim him for ,america4 ,in all the perils1 in every darkened moment of the state1 in the midst of the reproaches of enemies and the misgivings of friends1 ,i turn to that transcendent name for courage and for consolation4 ,to him who denies or doubts whether our fervid liberty can be combined with law1 with order1 with the security of property1 with the pursuits and advancement of happiness2 to him who denies that our forms of government are capable of producing exaltation of soul1 and the passion of true glory2 to him who denies that we have contributed anything to the stock of great lessons and great examples2--to all these ,i reply by pointing to ,washington6 ,,footnote3 #cb ,from the ,second ,bunker ,hill ,oration1 delivered ,june #ag1 #ahdc4 ,,six ,,great ,,triumphs ,,in ,,the ,,history ,,of ,,american ,,oratory ,the selections under this division are taken from speeches which represent six of the greatest victories in the history of ,american eloquence3 7#a7 ,patrick ,henry before the ,virginia ,convention1 7#b7 ,alexander ,hamilton before the ,new ,york ,convention1 7#c7 ,daniel ,webster in ,reply to ,hayne in the ,senate1 7#d7 ,wendell ,phillips on the ,murder of ,lovejoy1 7#e7 ,abraham ,lincoln in his debates with ,douglas1 and 7#f7 ,henry ,ward ,beecher in his speeches in ,england in defence of the ,american ,union4 ,i4 ,,the ,,call ,,to ,,arms ,,patrick ,,henry ,this speech was delivered ,march #bj1 #agge1 in the ,virginia ,convention4 ,although the measures he advocated sent a shock of consternation through the conservative assembly and caused them to oppose the resolutions with all their power1 yet all objections were swept away and the measures were adopted4 ,mr4 ,president1 it is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope4 ,we are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth1 and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts4 ,is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty8 ,are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not1 and having ears hear not1 the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation8 ,for my part1 whatever anguish of spirit it may cost1 ,i am willing to know the whole truth2 to know the worst and to provide for it4 ,i have but one lamp by which my feet are guided1 and that is the lamp of experience4 ,i know of no way of judging of the future but by the past4 ,and1 judging by the past1 ,i wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the ,british ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the ,house4 ,is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received8 ,trust it not1 sir2 it will prove a snare to your feet4 ,suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss4 ,ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land4 ,are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation8 ,have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love8 ,let us not deceive ourselves1 sir4 ,these are the implements of war and subjugation1 the last arguments to which kings resort4 ,i ask gentlemen1 sir1 what means this martial array1 if its purpose be not to force us to submission8 ,can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it8 ,has ,great ,britain any enemy in this quarter of the world to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies8 ,no1 sir1 she has none4 ,they are meant for us4 ,they can be meant for no other4 ,they are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the ,british ministry have been so long forging4 ,and what have we to oppose them8 ,shall we try argument8 ,sir1 we have been trying that for the last ten years4 ,have we anything new to offer upon the subject8 ,nothing4 ,we have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable2 but it has been all in vain4 ,shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication8 ,what terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted8 ,let us not1 ,i beseech you1 sir1 deceive ourselves longer4 ,sir1 we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm that is now coming on4 ,we have petitioned2 we have remonstrated2 we have supplicated2 we have prostrated ourselves before the throne1 and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and ,parliament4 ,our petitions have been slighted2 our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult2 our supplications have been disregarded2 and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne6 ,in vain1 after these things1 may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation4 ,there is no longer any room for hope4 ,if we wish to be free2 if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending2 if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged1 and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained1 we must fight6 ,i repeat it1 sir1 we must fight6 ,an appeal to arms and to the ,god of ,hosts is all that is left us6 ,they tell us1 sir1 that we are weak1 unable to cope with so formidable an adversary2 but when shall we be stronger8 ,will it be the next week1 or the next year8 ,will it be when we are totally disarmed1 and when a ,british guard shall be stationed in every house8 ,shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction8 ,shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs1 and hugging the delusive phantom of hope1 until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot8 ,sir1 we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the ,god of ,nature hath placed in our power4 ,three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty1 and in such a country as that which we possess1 are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us4 ,besides1 sir1 we shall not fight our battles alone4 ,there is a just ,god who presides over the destinies of nations1 and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us4 ,the battle1 sir1 is not to the strong alone2 it is to the vigilant1 the active1 the brave4 ,besides1 sir1 we have no election4 ,if we were base enough to desire it1 it is now too late to retire from the contest4 ,there is no retreat but in submission and slavery6 ,our chains are forged4 ,their clanking may be heard on the plains of ,boston6 ,the war is inevitable1 and let it come6 ,i repeat1 it1 sir1 let it come6 ,it is in vain1 sir1 to extenuate the matter4 ,gentlemen may cry1 ,peace1 peace6 but there is no peace4 ,the war is actually begun6 ,the next gale that sweeps from the ,north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms6 ,our brethren are already in the field6 ,why stand we here idle8 ,what is it that gentlemen wish8 ,what would they have8 ,is life so dear1 or peace so sweet1 as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery8 ,forbid it1 ,almighty ,god6 ,i know not what course others may take1 but as for me1 give me liberty or give me death6 ,,ii4 ,,coercion ,,of ,,delinquent ,,states ,,alexander ,,hamilton ,in the summer of #aghh the ,new ,york ,convention assembled at ,poughkeepsie to consider the question of the ratification of the ,constitution of the ,united ,states4 ,forty-six of the sixty-five delegates at first stoutly opposed ratification4 ,hamilton in a series of speeches upheld the ,constitution1 and when the vote was taken a majority of three sustained his position4 ,the following is an extract from one of those speeches3 ,the honorable member who spoke yesterday went into an explanation of a variety of circumstances1 to prove the expediency of a change in our ,national ,government1 and the necessity of a firm ,union4 ,at the same time he described the great advantages which this state1 in particular1 receives from the ,confederacy1 and its peculiar weaknesses when abstracted from the ,union4 ,in doing this he advanced a variety of arguments which deserve serious consideration4 ,sir1 it appears to me extraordinary1 that while the gentlemen in one breath acknowledge that the old ,confederation requires many material amendments1 they should in the next deny that its defects have been the cause of our political weakness and the consequent calamities of our country4 ,we contend that the radical vice in the old ,confederation is that the laws of the ,union apply only to ,states in their corporate capacity4 ,has not every man who has been in our ,legislature experienced the truth of this position8 ,it is inseparable from the disposition of bodies who have a constitutional power of resistance to examine the merits of a law4 ,the ,states have almost uniformly weighed the requisitions by their own local interests1 and have only executed them so far as answered their particular convenience or advantage4 ,hence there have ever been thirteen different bodies to judge of the measures of ,congress1 and the operations of ,government have been distracted by their taking different courses4 ,those which were to be benefited have complied with the requisitions2 others have totally disregarded them4 ,have not all of us been witnesses to the unhappy embarrassments which resulted from these proceedings8 ,even during the late war1 while the pressure of common danger connected strongly the bond of our union1 and incited to vigorous exertion1 we have felt many distressing effects of the important system4 ,how have we seen this ,state1 though most exposed to the calamities of the war1 complying in an unexampled manner with the federal requisitions1 and compelled by the delinquency of others to bear most unusual burdens6 ,our misfortunes in a great degree proceeded from the want of vigor in the ,continental ,government4 ,from the delinquency of those ,states which have suffered little by the war1 we naturally conclude that they have made no efforts2 and a knowledge of human nature will teach us that their ease and security have been a principal cause of their want of exertion4 ,while danger is distant its impression is weak1 and while it affects only our neighbors we have few motives to provide against it4 ,sir1 if we have national objects to pursue we must have national revenues4 ,if you make requisitions and they are not complied with what is to be done8 ,it has been observed to coerce the ,states is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised4 ,a failure of compliance will never be confined to a single ,state4 ,this being the case can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war8 ,suppose ,massachusetts1 or any large ,state1 should refuse and ,congress should attempt to compel them1 would they not have influence to procure assistance1 especially from those ,states which are in the same situation as themselves8 ,what picture does this idea present to our view8 ,a complying ,state at war with a non-complying ,state2 ,congress marching the troops of one ,state into the bosom of another2 this ,state collecting auxiliaries and forming1 perhaps1 a majority against its federal head4 ,here is a nation at war with itself4 ,can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself--a government that can exist only by the sword8 ,every such war must involve the innocent with the guilty4 ,this single consideration should be sufficient to dispose every peaceable citizen against such a government4 ,but can we believe that one ,state will ever suffer itself to be used as an instrument of coercion8 ,the thing is a dream2 it is impossible4 ,then we are brought to this dilemma--either a federal standing army is to enforce the requisitions1 or the federal treasury is left without supplies1 and the ,government without support4 ,what1 sir1 is the cure for this great evil8 ,nothing1 but to enable the national laws to operate on individuals in the same manner as those of the ,states do4 ,this is the true reasoning upon the subject1 sir4 ,the gentlemen appear to acknowledge its force2 and yet1 while they yield to the principle1 they seem to fear its application to the government4 ,what1 then1 shall we do8 ,shall we take the old ,confederation as a basis of a new system8 ,can this be the object of the gentlemen8 ,certainly not4 ,will any man who entertains a wish for the safety of his country trust the sword and purse with a single assembly organized on principles so defective1 so rotten8 ,though we might give to such a government certain powers with safety1 yet to give them the full and unlimited powers of taxation and the national forces would be to establish a despotism1 the definition of which is1 a government in which all power is concentrated in a single body4 ,to take the old ,confederation and fashion it upon these principles would be establishing a power which would destroy the liberties of the people4 ,these considerations show clearly that a government totally different must be instituted4 ,they had weight in the convention who formed the new system4 ,it was seen that the necessary powers were too great to be trusted to a single body2 they therefore formed two branches and divided the powers that each might be a check upon the other4 ,this was the result of their wisdom and ,i presume every reasonable man will agree to it4 ,the more this subject is explained the more clear and convincing it will appear to every member of this body4 ,the fundamental principle of the old ,confederation is defective2 we must totally eradicate and discard this principle before we can expect an efficient government4 ,,iii4 ,,the ,,reply ,,to ,,hayne ,,daniel ,,webster ,this speech was delivered in the ,senate1 ,january #bf1 #ahcj4 ,the doctrine of ,nullification and ,state ,rights had been set forth with great zeal and ability by ,senator ,hayne of ,south ,carolina4 ,the arguments were overthrown by the masterly speech of ,webster4 ,if anything be found in the national ,constitution1 either by original provision or subsequent interpretation1 which ought not to be in it1 the people know how to get rid of it4 ,if any construction unacceptable to them be established1 so as to become practically a part of the ,constitution1 they will amend it at their own sovereign pleasure4 ,but while the people choose to maintain it as it is1 while they are satisfied with it1 and refuse to change it1 who has given1 or who can give1 to the ,state legislatures a right to alter it either by interference1 construction1 or otherwise8 ,gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves4 ,they imagine there is no safety for them1 any longer than they are under the close guardianship of the ,state legislatures4 ,sir1 the people have not trusted their safety1 in regard to the general ,constitution1 to these hands4 ,they have required other security1 and taken other bonds4 ,they have chosen to trust themselves1 first1 to the plain words of the instrument1 and to such construction as the government itself1 in doubtful cases1 should put on its own powers1 under its oaths of office1 and subject to its responsibility to them2 just as the people of a ,state trust their own ,state governments with a similar power4 ,secondly1 they have reposed their trust in the efficacy of frequent elections1 and in their own power to remove their own servants and agents whenever they see cause4 ,thirdly1 they have reposed trust in the judicial power1 which1 in order that it might be trustworthy1 they have made as respectable1 as disinterested1 and as independent as was practicable4 ,fourthly1 they have seen fit to rely1 in case of necessity or high expediency1 on their known and admitted power to alter or amend the ,constitution peaceably and quietly1 whenever experience shall point out defects or imperfections4 ,and1 finally1 the people of the ,united ,states have at no time1 in no way1 directly or indirectly1 authorized any ,state legislature to construe or interpret their high instrument of government2 much less to interfere by their own power to arrest its course and operation4 ,i have thus stated the reasons of my dissent to the doctrines which have been advanced and maintained4 ,i am conscious of having detained you and the ,senate much too long4 ,i was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation1 such as is suited to the discussion of so grave and important a subject4 ,but it is a subject of which my heart is full1 and ,i have not been willing to suppress the utterance of its spontaneous sentiments4 ,i cannot1 even now1 persuade myself to relinquish it1 without expressing once more my deep conviction that1 since it respects nothing less than the union of the states1 it is of most vital and essential importance to public happiness4 ,i profess1 sir1 in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country1 and the preservation of our ,federal ,union4 ,it is to that ,union we owe our safety at home1 and our consideration and dignity abroad4 ,it is to that ,union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country4 ,that ,union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity4 ,it had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance1 prostrate commerce1 and ruined credit4 ,under its benign influences1 these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead1 and sprang forth with newness of life4 ,every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings2 and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider1 and our population spread farther and farther1 they have not outrun its protection or its benefits4 ,it has been to us all a copious fountain of national1 social1 and personal happiness4 ,i have not allowed myself1 sir1 to look beyond the ,union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind4 ,i have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty1 when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder4 ,i have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion1 to see whether1 with my short sight1 ,i can fathom the depth of the abyss below2 nor could ,i regard him as a safe counsellor in the affairs of this government1 whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering1 not how the ,union should be best preserved1 but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up and destroyed4 ,while the ,union lasts1 we have high1 exciting1 gratifying prospects spread out before us1 for us and our children4 ,beyond that ,i seek not to penetrate the veil4 ,god grant that1 in my day at least1 that curtain may not rise6 ,god grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind6 ,when my eyes shall be turned to behold1 for the last time1 the ,sun in heaven1 may ,i not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious ,union2 on ,states dissevered1 discordant1 belligerent2 on a land rent with civil feuds1 or drenched1 it may be1 in fraternal blood6 ,let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic1 now known and honored throughout the ,earth1 still full high advanced1 its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster1 not a stripe erased or polluted1 nor a single star obscured2 bearing for its motto1 no such miserable interrogatory as1 ,what is all this worth8 nor those other words of delusion and folly1 ,liberty first1 and ,union afterwards2 but everywhere1 spread all over in characters of living light1 blazing on all its ample folds1 as they float over the sea and over the land1 and in every wind under the whole heavens1 that other sentiment1 dear to every true ,american heart1--,liberty and ,union1 now and for ever1 one and inseparable6 ,,iv4 ,,the ,,murder ,,of ,,lovejoy ,,wendell ,,phillips ,on ,november #g1 #ahcg1 ,elijah ,p4 ,lovejoy1 an anti-slavery editor1 was shot by a mob at ,alton1 ,ill41 while defending his printing-press from destruction4 ,prominent citizens of ,boston called a meeting1 on ,december #h1 to condemn the act of the mob4 ,the ,attorney-,general of ,massachusetts opposed the resolutions of condemnation1 defended the mob1 and declared that ,lovejoy died as the fool dieth4 ,wendell ,phillips said to a friend1 ,such a speech made in ,faneuil ,hall must be answered in ,faneuil ,hall4 ,he made his way to the platform and spoke in part as follows3 ,mr4 ,chairman1 ,we have met for the freest discussion of these resolutions1 and the events which gave rise to them4 ,i hope ,i shall be permitted to express my surprise at the sentiments of the last speaker1 surprise not only at such sentiments from such a man1 but at the applause they have received within these walls4 ,a comparison has been drawn between the events of the ,revolution and the tragedy at ,alton4 ,we have heard it asserted here1 in ,faneuil ,hall1 that ,great ,britain had a right to tax the colonies1 and we have heard the mob at ,alton1 the drunken murderers of ,lovejoy1 compared to those patriot fathers who threw the tea overboard4 ,fellow-citizens1 is this ,fanueil ,hall doctrine8 ,the mob at ,alton were met to wrest from a citizen his just rights1 met to resist the laws4 ,we have been told that our fathers did the same1 and the glorious mantle of ,revolutionary precedent has been thrown over the mobs of our day4 ,to make out their title to such defense the gentleman says that the ,british ,parliament had a right to tax these colonies4 ,it is manifest that without this his parallel falls to the ground1 for ,lovejoy had stationed himself within constitutional bulwarks4 ,he was not only defending the freedom of the press1 but he was under his own roof in arms with the sanction of the civil authority4 ,the men who assailed him went against and over the laws4 ,the mob as the gentleman terms it1--mob1 forsooth6 certainly we sons of the tea spillers are a marvelously patient generation6--the orderly mob which assembled in the ,old ,south to destroy the tea were met to resist1 not the laws1--but illegal exactions4 ,shame on the ,american who calls the tea-tax and stamp-act laws6 ,our fathers resisted1 not the king's prerogative1 but the king's usurpation4 ,to find any other account1 you must read our ,revolutionary history upside down4 ,our ,state archives are loaded with arguments of ,john ,adams to prove the taxes laid by the ,british ,parliament unconstitutional1 beyond its power4 ,it was not till this was made out that the men of ,new ,england rushed to arms4 ,the arguments of the ,council ,chamber and the ,house of ,representatives preceded and sanctioned the contest4 ,to draw the argument of our ancestors into a precedent for mobs1 for a right to resist laws we ourselves have enacted1 is an insult to their memory4 ,the difference between the excitements of those days and our own1 which the gentleman in kindness to the latter has overlooked1 is simply this3 the men of our day went for the right as secured by the laws4 ,they were the people rising to sustain the laws and constitution of the ,province4 ,the rioters of our day go for their own wills1 right or wrong4 ,sir1 when ,i heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of ,alton side by side with ,otis and ,hancock1 with ,quincy and ,adams1 ,i thought those pictured lips#cc would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant ,american1 the slanderer of the dead4 ,the gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared to gainsay the principles of these resolutions4 ,sir1 for the sentiments he has uttered on soil consecrated by the prayers of ,puritans and the blood of patriots1 the earth should have yawned and swallowed him up4 ,the gentleman says ,lovejoy was presumptuous and imprudent1 he died as the fool dieth4 ,and a reverend clergyman of the city tells us that no citizen has a right to publish opinions disagreeable to the community6 ,if any mob follows such publication on him rests the guilt4 ,he must wait forsooth till the people come up to it and agree with him4 ,this libel on liberty goes on to say that the want of right to speak as we think is an evil inseparable from republican institutions4 ,if this be so what are they worth8 ,welcome the despotism of the ,sultan where one knows what he may publish and what he may not1 rather than the tyranny of this many-headed monster the mob1 where we know not what we may do or say till some fellow-citizen has tried it and paid for the lesson with his life4 ,this clerical absurdity chooses as a check for the abuses of the press1 not the law but the dread of the mob4 ,by so doing it deprives not only the individual and the minority of their rights1 but the majority also1 since the expression of their opinion may sometimes provoke disturbance from the minority4 ,a few men may make a mob as well as many4 ,the majority then have no right as ,christian men1 to utter their sentiments if by any possibility it may lead to a mob4 ,shades of ,hugh ,peters and ,john ,cotton1 save us from such pulpits6 ,imprudent to defend the liberty of the press6 ,why8 ,because the defense was unsuccessful8 ,does success gild crime into patriotism1 and the want of it change heroic self-devotion into imprudence8 ,was ,hampden imprudent when he drew the sword and threw away the scabbard8 ,yet he1 judged by that single hour1 was unsuccessful4 ,after a short exile the race he hated sat again upon the throne4 ,imagine yourself present when the first news of ,bunker ,hill battle reached a ,new ,england town4 ,the tale would have run thus1 ,the patriots are routed1 the redcoats victorious1 ,warren lies dead upon the field4 ,with what scorn would that ,tory have been received who should have charged ,warren with imprudence1 who should have said that1 bred as a physician1 he was out of place in the battle1 and died as the fool dieth6 ,how would the intimation have been received that ,warren and his associates should have waited a better time8 ,presumptuous to assert the freedom of the press on ,american ground6 ,is the assertion of such freedom before the age8 ,so much before the age as to leave one no right to make it because it displeases the community8 ,who invents this libel on his country8 ,it is this very thing that entitles ,lovejoy to greater praise4 ,the disputed right which provoked the revolution--taxation without representation--is far beneath that for which he died4 ,as much as thought is better than money1 so much is the cause in which ,lovejoy died nobler than a mere question of taxes4 ,james ,otis thundered in this hall when the king did but touch his pocket4 ,imagine if you can his indignant eloquence had ,england offered to put a gag upon his lips4 ,,footnote3 #cc ,phillips points to portraits in the hall4 ,v4 ,,the ,,slavery ,,issue ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,an extract from a speech delivered at ,alton1 ,ill41 ,october #ae1 #aheh4 ,it is taken from one of a series of seven speeches delivered in joint debate with ,douglas in the ,senatorial campaign in ,illinois4 ,lincoln lost the ,senatorship but won the ,presidency by this series of speeches4 ,fellow-citizens1 ,i have not only made the declaration that ,i do not mean to produce a conflict between the states1 but ,i have tried to show by fair reasoning that ,i propose nothing but what has a most peaceful tendency4 ,the quotation that a house divided against itself cannot stand1 and which has proved so offensive to ,judge ,douglas1 was part of the same thing4 ,he tries to show that variety in the domestic institutions of the different states is necessary and indispensable4 ,i do not dispute it4 ,i very readily agree with him that it would be foolish for us to insist upon having a cranberry law here in ,illinois where we have no cranberries1 because they have a cranberry law in ,indiana where they have cranberries4 ,i should insist that it would be exceedingly wrong in us to deny to ,virginia the right to enact oyster laws1 where they have oysters1 because we want no such laws here4 ,if we here raise a barrel of flour more than we want and the ,louisianians raise a barrel of sugar more than they want1 it is of mutual advantage to exchange4 ,that produces commerce1 brings us together and makes us better friends4 ,these mutual accommodations bind together the different parts of this ,union4 ,instead of being a thing to divide the house they tend to sustain it1 they are the props of the house tending always to hold it up4 ,but is it true that all the difficulty and agitation we have in regard to this institution of slavery springs from office seeking1 from the mere ambition of politicians8 ,is that the truth8 ,how many times have we had danger from this question8 ,go back to the days of the ,missouri ,compromise4 ,go back to the ,nullification question1 at the bottom of which lay this same slavery question4 ,go back to the time of the annexation of ,texas4 ,go back to the troubles that led to the ,compromise of #ahej4 ,you will find that every time1 with the single exception of the ,nullification question1 they sprung from an endeavor to spread this institution4 ,there never was a party in the history of this country1 and there probably never will be1 of sufficient strength to disturb the general peace of the country4 ,parties themselves may be divided and quarrel on minor questions4 ,yet it extends not beyond the parties themselves4 ,the ,judge alludes very often in the course of his remarks to the exclusive right which the states have to decide for themselves4 ,i agree with him very readily that the different states have the right4 ,our controversy with him is in regard to the new territories4 ,we agree that when the states come in as states they have the right and the power to do as they please4 ,we have no power as citizens of the free states or in our federal capacity as members of the federal ,union through the general government to disturb slavery in the states where it exists4 ,what ,i insist upon is that the new territories shall be kept free from it while in the territorial condition4 ,judge ,douglas assumes that we have no interest in them1 that we have no right whatever to interfere4 ,i think we have some interest4 ,i think that as white men we have4 ,do we not wish for an outlet for our surplus population1 if ,i may so express myself8 ,do we not feel an interest in getting to that outlet with such institutions as we would like to have prevail there8 ,if you go to the territory opposed to slavery and another man comes to the same ground with his slave1 upon the assumption that the things are equal1 it turns out that he has the equal right all his way and you have no part of it your way4 ,the real issue in this controversy is the sentiment on the part of one class that looks upon the institution of slavery as a wrong1 and of another class that does not look upon it as wrong4 ,it is the sentiment around which all their actions1 all their arguments circle1 from which all their propositions radiate4 ,they look upon it as being a moral1 social1 and political wrong4 ,has anything ever threatened the existence of this ,union save this very institution of slavery8 ,what is it that we hold most dear amongst us8 ,our own liberty and prosperity4 ,what has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity except this institution of slavery8 ,if this be true1 how do you propose to improve the condition of things by enlarging it8 ,you may have a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death1 but surely it is no way to cure it to graft it and spread it over your body4 ,that is no proper way of treating what you regard as wrong4 ,that is the real issue4 ,that is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of ,judge ,douglas and myself are silent4 ,it is the eternal struggle between these two principles1 right and wrong1 throughout the world4 ,they are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time1 and will ever continue to struggle4 ,the one is the common right of humanity and the other is the divine right of kings4 ,it is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself4 ,it is the same spirit that says1 ,you work and toil and earn bread and ,i'll eat it4 ,no matter in what shape it comes1 whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor1 or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race1 it is the same tyrannical principle4 ,,vi4 ,,moral ,,aspect ,,of ,,the ,,american ,,war ,,henry ,,ward ,,beecher ,taken from a speech delivered in ,london1 ,october #bj1 #ahfc4 ,in a series of five speeches in order at ,manchester1 ,glasgow1 ,edinburgh1 ,liverpool1 and ,london1 ,henry ,ward ,beecher changed the attitude of the ,english nation from one of open hostility to the ,union to neutrality and even to favor4 ,it is doubtful if there ever was a greater triumph in the history of eloquence4 ,this war began by the act of the ,south1 firing at the old flag that had covered both sections with glory and protection4 ,the attack made upon us was under circumstances which inflicted immediate humiliation and threatened us with final subjugation4 ,the ,southerners held all the keys of the country4 ,they had robbed our arsenals4 ,they had made our treasury bankrupt4 ,they had possession of the most important offices in the army and navy4 ,they had the advantage of having long anticipated and prepared for the conflict4 ,we knew not whom to trust4 ,one man failed and another man failed4 ,men1 pensioned by the ,government1 lived on the salary of the ,government only to have better opportunity to stab and betray it4 ,and for the ,north to have lain down like a spaniel1 to have given up the land that every child in ,america is taught1 as every child in ,britain is taught1 to regard as his sacred right and his trust1 to have given up the mouths of our own rivers and our mountain citadels without a blow1 would have marked the ,north in all future history as craven and mean4 ,second1 the honor and safety of that grand experiment1 self-government by free institutions1 demanded that so flagitious a violation of the first principles of legality should not carry off impunity and reward1 thereafter enabling the minority in every party conflict to turn and say to the majority1 ,if you don't give us our way we will make war4 ,oh1 ,englishmen1 would you let a minority dictate in such a way to you8 ,the principle thus introduced would literally have no end1 would carry the nation back to its original elements of isolated states4 ,nor is there any reason why it should stop with states4 ,if every treaty may be overthrown by which states have been settled into a nation1 what form of political union may not on like grounds be severed8 ,there is the same force in the doctrine of secession in the application of counties as in the application to states1 and if it be right for a state or a county to secede1 it is equally right for a town or a city4 ,this doctrine of secession is a huge revolving millstone that grinds the national life to powder4 ,it is anarchy in velvet1 and national destruction clothed in soft phrases4 ,no people with patriotism and honor will give up territory without a struggle for it4 ,would you give it up8 ,it is said that the states are owners of their territory6 ,it is theirs to use not theirs to run away with4 ,we have equal right with them to enter it4 ,i would like to ask those ,english gentlemen who hold that it is right for a state to secede when it pleases1 how they would like it if the county of ,kent would try the experiment4 ,the men who cry out for secession of the ,southern ,states in ,america would say1 ,kent seceding8 ,ah1 circumstances alter cases4 ,one more reason why we will not let this people go is because we do not want to become a military people4 ,a great many say ,america is becoming too strong1 she is dangerous to the peace of the world4 ,but if you permit or favor this division1 the ,south becomes a military nation and the ,north is compelled to become a military nation4 ,along a line of #aejj miles she must have forts and men to garrison them4 ,now any nation that has a large standing army is in great danger of losing its liberties4 ,before this war the legal size of the national army was #be1jjj4 ,if the country were divided then we should have two great military nations taking its place4 ,and if ,america by this ill-advised disruption is forced to have a standing army1 like a boy with a knife she will always want to whittle with it4 ,it is the interest then of the world1 that the nation should be united1 and that it should be under the control of that part of ,america that has always been for peace4 ,the religious minded among our people feel that in the territory committed to us there is a high and solemn trust1 a national trust4 ,we are taught that in some sense the world itself is a field1 and every ,christian nation acknowledges a certain responsibility for the moral condition of the globe4 ,but how much nearer does it come when it is one's own country6 ,and the church of ,america is coming to feel more and more that ,god gave us this country not merely for material aggrandizement1 but for a glorious triumph of the church of ,christ4 ,therefore we undertook to rid the territory of slavery4 ,since slavery has divested itself of its municipal protection and has become a declared public enemy1 it is our duty to strike down slavery which would blight this territory4 ,these truths are not exaggerated1 they are diminished rather than magnified in my statement1 and you cannot tell how powerfully they are influencing us unless you are standing in our midst in ,america2 you cannot understand how firm that national feeling is which ,god has bred in the ,north on this subject4 ,it is deeper than the sea1 it is firmer than the hills1 it is serene as the sky over our head where ,god dwells4 ,we believe that the war is a test of our institutions1 that it is a life-and-death struggle between the two principles of liberty and slavery1 that it is the cause of the common people the world over4 ,we believe that every struggling nationality on the globe will be stronger if we conquer this odious oligarchy of slavery and that every oppressed people in the world will be weaker if we fail4 ,the sober ,american regards the war as part of that awful yet glorious struggle which has been going on for hundreds of years in every nation between right and wrong1 between virtue and vice1 between liberty and despotism1 between freedom and bondage4 ,it carries with it the whole future condition of our vast continent1 its laws1 its policy1 its fate4 ,and standing in view of these tremendous realities we have consecrated all that we have1 our children1 our wealth1 our national strength1 and we lay them all on the altar and say1 ,it is better that they should all perish than that the ,north should falter and betray this trust of ,god1 this hope of the oppressed1 this western civilization4 ,if we say this of ourselves1 shall we say less of the slave-holders8 ,if we are willing to do these things1 shall we say1 ,stop the war for their sakes6 ,if we say this of ourselves1 shall we have more pity for the rebellious1 for slavery seeking to blacken a continent with its awful evil1 desecrating the social phrase1 ,national ,independence1 by seeking only an independence that shall enable them to treat four millions of human beings as chattels8 ,shall we be tenderer over them than over ourselves8 ,standing by my cradle1 standing by my hearth1 standing by the altar of the church1 standing by all the places that mark the name and memory of heroic men who poured out their lives for principle1 ,i declare that in ten or twenty years of war we will sacrifice everything we have for principle4 ,if the love of popular liberty is dead in ,great ,britain you will not understand us1 but if the love of liberty lives as it once lived1 and has worthy successors of those renowned men that were our ancestors as much as yours1 and whose example and principles we inherit as so much seed corn in a new and fertile land1 then you will understand our firm invincible determination to fight this war through at all hazards and at every cost4 ,,abolition ,,of ,,war#cd ,,charles ,,sumner ,can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable1 any war that is not dishonorable8 ,the true honor of a nation is conspicuous only in deeds of justice and beneficence1 securing and advancing human happiness4 ,in the clear eye of that ,christian judgment which must yet prevail1 vain are the victories of war1 infamous its spoils4 ,he is the benefactor1 and worthy of honor1 who carries comfort to wretchedness1 dries the tear of sorrow1 relieves the unfortunate1 feeds the hungry1 clothes the naked1 does justice1 enlightens the ignorant1 unfastens the fetters of the slave1 and finally1 by virtuous genius1 in art1 literature1 science1 enlivens and exalts the hours of life1 or by generous example1 inspires a love for ,god and man4 ,this is the ,christian hero2 this is the man of honor in a ,christian land4 ,he is no benefactor1 nor worthy of honor1 whatever his worldly renown1 whose life is absorbed in feats of brute force1 who renounces the great law of ,christian brotherhood1 whose vocation is blood4 ,fellow-citizens1 this criminal and impious custom of war1 which all condemn in the case of individuals1 is openly avowed by our own country1 and by other countries of the great ,christian ,federation1 nay1 that it is expressly established by international law1 as the proper mode of determining justice between nations1--while the feats of hardihood by which it is waged1 and the triumphs of its fields1 are exalted beyond all other labors1 whether of learning1 industry1 or benevolence1 as the wellspring of glory4 ,alas6 upon our own heads be the judgment of barbarism which we pronounce upon those who have gone before6 ,who has taught you1 ,o man6 thus to find glory in an act1 performed by a nation1 which you condemn as a crime or a barbarism1 when committed by an individual8 ,in what vain conceit of wisdom and virtue do you find this incongruous morality8 ,where is it declared that ,god1 who is no respecter of persons1 is a respecter of multitudes8 ,whence do you draw these partial laws of an impartial ,god8 ,man is immortal2 but nations are mortal4 ,man has a higher destiny than nations4 ,can nations be less amenable to the supreme moral law8 ,each individual is an atom of the mass4 ,must not the mass1 in its conscience1 be like the individuals of which it is composed8 ,shall the mass1 in relation with other masses1 do what individuals in relation with each other may not do8 ,as in the physical creation1 so in the moral1 there is but one rule for the individual and the mass4 ,it was the lofty discovery of ,newton1 that the simple law which determines the fall of an apple prevails everywhere throughout the universe1 reaching from earth to heaven1 and controlling the infinite motions of the spheres4 ,so1 with equal scope1 another simple law1 the law of right1 which binds the individual1 binds also two or three when gathered together1 binds conventions and congregations of men1 binds villages1 towns1 and cities1 binds states1 nations1 and races1 clasps the whole human family in its embrace1 and binds in self-imposed bonds1 a just and omnipotent ,god4 ,stripped of all delusive apology and tried by that comprehensive law under which nations are set to the bar like common men1 war falls from glory into barbarous guilt1 taking its place among bloody transgressions1 while its flaming honors are turned into shame4 ,painful to existing prejudice as this may be1 we must learn to abhor it1 as we abhor similar transgressions by vulgar offenders4 ,every word of reprobation which the enlightened conscience now fastens upon the savage combatant in trial by battle1 or which it applies to the unhappy being who in murderous duel takes the life of his fellow-man1 belongs also to the nation that appeals to war4 ,amidst the thunders of ,sinai ,god declared1 ,thou shalt not kill2 and the voice of these thunders1 with this commandment1 is prolonged to our own day in the echoes of ,christian churches4 ,what mortal shall restrict the application of these words8 ,who on earth is empowered to vary or abridge the commandments of ,god8 ,who shall presume to declare that this injunction was directed1 not to nations1 but to individuals only2 not to many1 but to one only2 that one man shall not kill but that many may2 that one man shall not slay in duel1 but that a nation may slay a multitude in the duel of war2 that each individual is forbidden to destroy the life of a single human being1 but that a nation is not forbidden to cut off by the sword a whole people8 ,we are struck with horror and our hair stands on end1 at the report of a single murder2 we think of the soul hurried to final account2 we hunt the murderer2 and ,government puts forth its energies to secure his punishment4 ,viewed in the unclouded light of truth1 what is war but organized murder1 murder of malice aforethought1 in cold blood1 under sanction of impious law1 through the operation of extensive machinery of crime1 with innumerable hands1 at incalculable cost of money1 by subtle contrivances of cunning and skill1 or amidst the fiendish atrocities of the savage1 brutal assault4 ,the outrages1 which1 under most solemn sanction1 it permits and invokes for professed purposes of justice1 cannot be authorized by any human power2 and they must rise in overwhelming judgment1 not only against those who wield the weapons of battle1 but more still against all who uphold its monstrous arbitrament4 ,oh1 when shall the ,st4 ,louis of the nations arise1 and in the spirit of true greatness1 proclaim that henceforward forever the great trial by battle shall cease1 that war shall be abolished throughout the commonwealth of civilization1 that a spectacle so degrading shall never be allowed again to take place1 and that it is the duty of nations1 involving the highest and wisest policy1 to establish love between each other1 and1 in all respects1 at all times1 with all persons1 whether their own people or the people of other lands1 to be governed by the sacred law of right1 as between man and man4 ,,footnote3 #cd ,from the ,true ,grandeur of ,nations1 delivered in ,boston1 ,july #d1 #ahde4 ,,the ,,american ,,flag#ce ,,henry ,,ward ,,beecher ,a thoughtful mind1 when it sees a nation's flag1 sees not the flag only1 but the nation itself2 and whatever may be its symbols1 its insignia1 he reads chiefly in the flag the government1 the principles1 the truths1 the history1 which belong to the nation which sets it forth4 ,when the ,french tricolor rolls out to the wind1 we see ,france4 ,when the new-found ,italian flag is unfurled1 we see resurrected ,italy4 ,when the other three-cornered ,hungarian flag shall be lifted to the wind1 we shall see in it the long-buried but never dead principles of ,hungarian liberty4 ,when the united crosses of ,st4 ,andrew and ,st4 ,george on a fiery ground set forth the banner of ,old ,england1 we see not the cloth merely2 there rises up before the mind the noble aspect of that monarchy1 which1 more than any other on the globe1 has advanced its banner for liberty1 law1 and national prosperity4 ,this nation has a banner1 too2 and wherever it streamed abroad1 men saw daybreak bursting on their eyes1 for the ,american flag has been the symbol of liberty1 and men rejoiced in it4 ,not another flag on the globe had such an errand1 or went forth upon the sea carrying everywhere1 the world around1 such hope for the captive1 and such glorious tidings4 ,the stars upon it were to the pining nations like the morning stars of ,god1 and the stripes upon it were beams of morning light4 ,as at early dawn the stars stand first1 and then it grows light1 and then as the sun advances1 that light breaks into banks and streaming lines of color1 the glowing red and intense white striving together and ribbing the horizon with bars effulgent1 so on the ,american flag1 stars and beams of many-colored light shine out together4 ,and wherever the flag comes1 and men behold it1 they see in its sacred emblazonry no rampant lion and fierce eagle1 but only light1 and every fold significant of liberty4 ,the history of this banner is all on one side4 ,under it rode ,washington and his armies2 before it ,burgoyne laid down his arms4 ,it waved on the highlands at ,west ,point2 it floated over old ,fort ,montgomery4 ,when ,arnold would have surrendered these valuable fortresses and precious legacies1 his night was turned into day1 and his treachery was driven away by the beams of light from this starry banner4 ,it cheered our army1 driven from ,new ,york1 in their solitary pilgrimage through ,new ,jersey4 ,it streamed in light over ,valley ,forge and ,morristown4 ,it crossed the waters rolling with ice at ,trenton2 and when its stars gleamed in the cold morning with victory1 a new day of hope dawned on the despondency of the nation4 ,and when1 at length1 the long years of war were drawing to a close1 underneath the folds of this immortal banner sat ,washington while ,yorktown surrendered its hosts and our ,revolutionary struggles ended with victory4 ,let us1 then1 twine each thread of the glorious tissue of our country's flag about our heartstrings2 and looking upon our homes and catching the spirit that breathes upon us from the battle-fields of our fathers1 let us resolve1 come weal or woe1 we will1 in life and in death1 now and forever1 stand by the ,stars and ,stripes4 ,they have been unfurled from the snows of ,canada to the plains of ,new ,orleans1 in the halls of the ,montezumas and amid the solitude of every sea2 and everywhere1 as the luminous symbol of resistless and beneficent power1 they have led the brave to victory and to glory4 ,they have floated over our cradles2 let it be our prayer and our struggle that they shall float over our graves4 ,,footnote3 #ce ,by permission of the publishers1 ,fords1 ,howard ,hulbert4 ,,the ,,american ,,people#cf ,,albert ,j4 ,,beveridge ,the day for the provincial and the transient has passed in ,american statesmanship4 ,to-day our destiny is brooding over every sea4 ,we are dealing with the world and with the unborn years4 ,we are dealing with the larger duties that ever crowned and burdened human brows4 ,american statesmanship must be as broad as ,american destiny and as brave as ,american duty4 ,and ,american statesmanship will be all this if it draws its inspiration from the masterful ,american people and their imperial history4 ,for the ,american people have never taken fear for a counselor4 ,they have never taken doubt for a guide4 ,they have obeyed the impulses of their blood4 ,they have hearkened to the voice of our ,god4 ,they have surmounted insuperable obstacles on the wings of a mighty faith2 they have solved insoluble problems by the sovereign rule of liberty2 they have made the bosom of the ocean and the heart of the wilderness their home2 they have subdued nature and told history a new tale4 ,let ,american statesmanship listen to the heart-beats of the ,american people in the present hour and there will be no confusion1 no hesitation1 no craven doubt4 ,the faith of the ,mayflower1 as it sailed into the storm-fringed horizon1 is with us yet4 ,the courage of ,lexington and ,bunker ,hill is with us yet4 ,the spirit of ,hamilton and ,jefferson and ,jackson and ,seward and ,grant is with us yet4 ,the unconquerable heart of the pioneer still beats within ,american breasts1 and the ,american flag advances still in its ceaseless and imperial progress1 with law and order and ,christian civilization trooping beneath its sacred folds4 ,the ,american people are the propagandists and not the misers of liberty4 ,he who no longer believes in the vitality of the ,american people1 in the immortality and saving grace of free institutions1 in the imperial greatness of ,american destiny1 belongs not in the councils of the ,american ,nation1 but in the somber ,cabinets of the decaying races of the world4 ,the ,american people are not perishing2 they are just beginning their real career4 ,the full sunrise of the day which peculiarly belongs to the ,american people in the progress of human events has flooded all the world at last2 and we will live each golden moment of our mighty day in a way as great as the day itself4 ,,footnote3 #cf ,by permission of the author4 ,,the ,,american ,,question ,,john ,,bright ,now let me ask you1 what is this people about which so many men in ,england at this moment are writing and speaking and thinking with harshness8 ,two centuries ago multitudes of the people of this country found a refuge on the ,north ,american ,continent1 escaping from the tyranny of the ,stuarts1 and from the bigotry of ,laud4 ,many noble spirits from our country made great experiments in favor of human freedom on that continent4 ,bancroft1 the great historian of his country1 has said1 ,the history of the colonization of ,america is the history of the crimes of ,europe4 ,from that time down to our own period ,america has admitted the wanderers from every clime4 ,since #ahae1 a time which many here remember1 and which is within my lifetime1 more than three millions of persons have emigrated from the ,united ,kingdom to the ,united ,states4 ,during the fifteen years from #ahde to #ahfj more than two million persons left the shores of the ,united ,kingdom as emigrants to ,north ,america4 ,at this very moment1 then1 there are millions in the ,united ,states who personally have been citizens of this country4 ,they found a home in the far ,west1 they subdued the wilderness1 they met with plenty there and became a great people4 ,there may be men in ,england who dislike democracy and who hate a republic4 ,but of this ,i am certain that only misrepresentation the most gross or calumny the most wicked can sever the tie which unites the great mass of the people of this country with their friends and relatives beyond the ,atlantic4 ,now whether the ,union will be restored ,i know not4 ,but this ,i think ,i know1 that in a few years1 a very few years1 the twenty millions of freemen in the ,north will be thirty or even fifty millions1 a population equal to that of this kingdom4 ,when that time comes ,i pray that it may not be said amongst them that1 in the darkest hour of their country's trials1 ,england1 the land of their fathers1 looked on with icy coldness and saw unmoved the perils and calamities of their children4 ,as for me ,i have but this to say1 if all other tongues are silent1 mine shall speak for that policy which gives hope to the bondsmen of the ,south and which tends to generous thoughts and generous words and generous deeds between the two great nations who speak the ,english language1 and from their origin are alike entitled to the ,english name4 ,,america',s ,,relation ,,to ,,missions ,,james ,b4 ,,angell ,the government which breaks treaties with respect to missionaries and takes no steps to protect them will easily yield to the temptation to infringe on the rights of other citizens4 ,is it not possible that because our government has allowed outrages against our missionaries to go on since #ahhc in ,turkey1--highway robbery1 brutal assault1 destruction of buildings1--without any demonstration beyond peaceful and patient argument1 the ,ottoman government is now proceeding in so highhanded a manner to prevent by false allegations the importation of our flour and our pork8 ,a nation which allows one class of citizens1 who are of the purest character and most unselfish spirit1 to be insulted and outraged with impunity in a foreign land must not be surprised if other classes of its citizens are also imposed upon and wronged in that land1 wherever selfish interests are invoked against them4 ,careful observation will show that our large mercantile interests are likely to be imperiled by our neglect to insist on the rights which citizens of any honorable calling are entitled to under treaties of international law4 ,a display of force does not necessarily mean war4 ,it is certainly an emphatic mode of making a demand4 ,it often insures a prompt settlement of difficulties1 which1 if allowed to drag on and accumulate1 would end in war4 ,therefore1 wisely and opportunely made1 a proper demonstration in support of a just demand may obviate the ultimate necessity of war4 ,the problem is not a simple one for the government4 ,if it does nothing but register requests for justice1 injustice may be done1 not only to missionaries1 but also to other citizens4 ,those dilatory1 oriental governments1 embarrassed by so many difficult problems of internal administration1 do not willingly act except under some pressure4 ,and pressure which is not war and which will probably not lead to war1 can be brought to bear by diplomatic and naval agencies4 ,our government was never in so good a condition to pursue such a policy4 ,it has a prestige among oriental nations before unknown4 ,its voice1 when it speaks with an imperative tone1 will now be heard4 ,the question for it is far larger than a missionary question4 ,an influential ,american citizen has lately written me from an oriental country where our requests have received little attention1 saying3 ,if our government proposes to do nothing for ,american citizens they should say so and turn us over to the care of the ,british embassy4 ,such language as that makes one's blood tingle and stirs us to ask afresh1 not alone as friends of missionaries1 but as ,american citizens1 what policy will our nation adopt to secure the rights of all our countrymen of whatever pursuit who are dwelling under treaty guarantees in ,china and ,turkey8 ,the friends of missions ask no exceptional favors from the government4 ,they simply seek for such protection as their fellow-citizens need4 ,it is1 of course1 for our government to say at what time and by what methods it shall act4 ,it is sometimes wise and even necessary for a government to postpone seeking a settlement of difficulties with a foreign power1 even when it is clear that a settlement is highly desirable4 ,great exigencies may require delays4 ,we must exercise the patience which patriotism calls for4 ,but we may be permitted without impropriety to express our desire and our opinion that our government should find some way to make it absolutely clear to oriental countries that it intends to secure the protection for all our citizens1 including missionaries1 to which they are entitled by treaties and by international law4 ,,american ,,slavery ,,john ,,bright ,slavery has been as we all know the huge1 foul blot upon the fame of the ,american ,republic4 ,it is an outrage against human right and against divine law1 but the pride1 the passion of man1 will not permit its peaceable extinction4 ,is not this war the penalty which inexorable justice exacts from ,america1 ,north and ,south1 for the enormous guilt of cherishing that frightful iniquity of slavery for the last eighty years8 ,the leaders of this revolt propose this monstrous thing1--that over a territory forty times as large as ,england the blight and curse of slavery shall be forever perpetuated4 ,i cannot believe that such a fate can befall that fair land1 stricken as it now is with the ravages of war4 ,i cannot believe that civilization in its journey with the sun will sink into endless night to gratify the ambition of leaders of this revolt1 who seek to ,wade through slaughter to a throne1 ,and shut the gates of mercy on mankind4 ,i have a far other and brighter vision before my gaze4 ,it may be but a vision1 but ,i will cherish it4 ,i see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen ,north in unbroken line to the glowing ,south1 and from the wild billows of the ,atlantic1 westward to the calmer waters of the ,pacific main1--and ,i see one people1 and one law1 and one language1 and one faith1 and over all that wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime4 ,,the ,,armenian ,,massacres ,,william ,e4 ,,gladstone ,ladies and ,gentlemen1 ,before ,i come to the resolution which ,i have undertaken to move1 there are certain subjects which ,i wish to clear out of the way4 ,there are most important distinctions to be drawn on the ground that the sufferers under the present misrule and the horribly accumulated outrages of the last two years are our own fellow-,christians4 ,but we do not prosecute the cause we have in hand upon the ground that they are our fellow-,christians4 ,this is no crusade against ,mohammedanism4 ,this is no declaration of an altered policy or sentiment as regards our ,mohammedan fellow-subjects in ,india4 ,nay1 more2 ,i will say that it is no declaration of universal condemnation of the ,mohammedans of the ,turkish ,empire4 ,on the contrary1 amid the dismal and heartrending reports of which we have had to read and hear so much1 one of the rare touches of comfort and relief has been that in spite of the perpetration of massacres by the agents of the ,government1 in spite of the countenance given to massacre by the highest authority1 there have been good and generous ,mohammedans who have resisted these misdeeds to the uttermost of their power1 who have established for themselves a claim to our sympathy and our admiration4 ,although it is true that those persons are ,christians on whose behalf we move1 ,i confidently affirm1 and you will back me in my affirmation1 that if instead of being ,christians they were themselves ,mohammedans1 ,hindus1 ,buddhists1 or ,confucianists--they would have precisely the same claims upon our support2 and the motives which have brought us here to-day would be incumbent upon us with the same force and with the same sacredness that we recognize at the present moment4 ,there is another distinction1 gentlemen1 less conspicuous1 that ,i would wish to draw your attention to4 ,you have been discouraged by the attitude or by the tone of several of the ,continental ,governments4 ,do not too hastily assume that in that attitude and tone they are faithful representatives of the people whom they rule4 ,the ground on which we stand here is not ,british nor ,european1 but human4 ,nothing narrower than humanity could pretend for a moment justly to represent it4 ,it may have occurred to some that atrocities which it is hardly possible to exaggerate have been boldly denied2 and we are told by the ,government of ,turkey that the destruction of life which has taken place is not the work of either the ,sultan or his agents1 but is the work of revolutionaries and agitators4 ,in answer to this we may say that we do not rely upon the reports of revolutionaries or agitators4 ,we rely upon the responsible reports of our public men4 ,nay1 more2 while we know that there are those among the six ,powers who have shown every disposition to treat the case of the ,sultan with all the leniency1 with all the friendship that they could1 yet every one of them concurs in the statements upon which we stand1 and in giving an entire denial to counter-statements of the ,turkish ,government4 ,the guilt of massacre1 and not of massacre only but of every other horror that has been transacted1 rests upon that ,government4 ,and to the guilt of massacre is added the impudence of denial1 and this process will continue--how long8 ,just as long as you1 as ,europe1 are contented to hear it4 ,recollect that eighteen months or more have passed since the first of those gigantic massacres was perpetrated1 and when that occurrence took place it was thought to be so extraordinary that it was without precedent in the past2 for ,bulgaria becomes pale by the side of ,armenia4 ,but alas6 that massacre1 gigantic as it was1 has been followed up so that one has grown into a series4 ,to the work of murder was added the work of lust1 the work of torture1 the work of pillage1 the work of starvation1 and every accessory that it was possible for human wickedness to devise4 ,to all other manifestations which had formerly been displayed in the face of the world there was added consummate insolence4 ,come what may1 let us extract ourselves from an ambiguous position4 ,let us have nothing to do with countenance of1 and so renounce and condemn1 neutrality2 and let us present ourselves to ,her ,majesty's ,ministers1 promising them in good faith our ungrudging and our enthusiastic support in every effort which they may make to express by word and by deed their detestation of acts1 not yet perhaps having reached their consummation1 but which already have come to such a magnitude and such a depth of atrocity that they constitute the most terrible and most monstrous series of proceedings that have ever been recorded in the dismal and deplorable history of human crime4 ,,battle ,,hymn ,,of ,,the ,,republic#cg ,,julia ,,ward ,,howe ,mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the ,lord2 ,he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored2 ,he hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword3 ,his truth is marching on4 ,i have seen ,him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps2 ,they have builded ,him an altar in the evening dews and damps2 ,i can read ,his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps3 ,his day is marching on4 ,i have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel3 ,as ye deal with my contemners1 so with you my grace shall deal1 ,let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel1 ,since ,god is marching on4 ,he hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat1 ,he is sifting out the hearts of men before ,his judgment seat4 ,oh6 be swift1 my soul1 to answer ,him6 be jubilant1 my feet6 ,our ,god is marching on4 ,in the beauty of the lilies ,christ was born across the sea1 ,with a glory in ,his bosom that transfigures you and me2 ,as ,he died to make men holy let us die to make men free1 ,while ,god is marching on4 ,,footnote3 #cg ,by special permission of the author4 ,,the ,,blue ,,and ,,the ,,gray ,,henry ,,cabot ,,lodge ,i was a boy ten years old when the troops marched away to defend ,washington4 ,i saw the troops1 month after month1 pour through the streets of ,boston4 ,i saw ,shaw go forth at the head of his black regiment1 and ,bartlett1 shattered in body but dauntless in soul1 ride by to carry what was left of him once more to the battlefields of the ,republic4 ,i saw ,andrew1 standing bareheaded on the steps of the ,state ,house1 bid the men godspeed4 ,i cannot remember the words he said1 but ,i can never forget the fervid eloquence which brought tears to the eyes and fire to the hearts of all who listened4 ,to my boyish mind one thing alone was clear1 that the soldiers1 as they marched past1 were all1 in that supreme hour1 heroes and patriots4 ,other feelings have1 in the progress of time1 altered much1 but amid many changes that simple belief of boyhood has never altered4 ,and you1 brave men who wore the gray1 would be the first to hold me or any other son of the ,north in just contempt if ,i should say that now it was all over ,i thought the ,north was wrong and the result of the war a mistake4 ,to the men who fought the battles of the ,confederacy we hold out our hands freely1 frankly and gladly4 ,we have no bitter memories to revive1 no reproaches to utter4 ,differ in politics and in a thousand other ways we must and shall in all good nature1 but never let us differ with each other on sectional or state lines1 by race or creed4 ,we welcome you1 soldiers of ,virginia1 as others more eloquent than ,i have said1 to ,new ,england4 ,we welcome you to old ,massachusetts4 ,we welcome you to ,boston and to ,faneuil ,hall4 ,in your presence here1 and at the sound of your voices beneath this historic roof1 the years roll back1 and we see the figure and hear again the ringing tones of your great orator1 ,patrick ,henry1 declaring to the first ,continental ,congress1 ,the distinctions between ,virginians1 ,pennsylvanians1 ,new ,yorkers1 and ,new ,englanders are no more4 ,i am not a ,virginian1 but an ,american4 ,a distinguished ,frenchman1 as he stood among the graves at ,arlington1 said3 ,only a great people is capable of a great civil war4 ,let us add with thankful hearts that only a great people is capable of a great reconciliation4 ,side by side1 ,virginia and ,massachusetts led the colonies into the ,war for ,independence4 ,side by side1 they founded the government of the ,united ,states4 ,morgan and ,greene1 ,lee and ,knox1 ,moultrie and ,prescott1 men of the ,south and men of the ,north1 fought shoulder to shoulder1 and wore the same uniform of buff and blue1--the uniform of ,washington4 ,mere sentiment all this1 some may say4 ,but it is sentiment1 true sentiment1 that has moved the world4 ,sentiment fought the war1 and sentiment has reunited us4 ,when the war was closed it was proposed to give ,governor ,andrew1 who had sacrificed health and strength and property in his public duties1 some immediately lucrative office4 ,a friend asked him if he would take such a place4 ,no1 said he2 ,i have stood as high priest between the horns of the altar1 and ,i have poured out upon it the best blood of ,massachusetts1 and ,i cannot take money for that4 ,mere sentiment truly1 but the sentiment which ennobles and uplifts mankind4 ,so ,i say that the sentiment manifested by your presence here1 brethren of ,virginia1 sitting side by side with those who wore the blue1 tells us that if war should break again upon the country1 the sons of ,virginia and ,massachusetts would1 as in the olden days1 stand once more shoulder to shoulder1 with no distinction in the colors that they wear4 ,it is fraught with tidings of peace on earth1 and you may read its meaning in the words on yonder picture1 ,liberty and union1 now and forever1 one and inseparable6 ,,corruption ,,of ,,prelates ,,girolamo ,,savonarola ,when the demon sees that man is weak he gives him a blow with a hatchet1 to make him fall into sin1 but when he sees him strong he strikes him down with an axe4 ,if there be a young woman1 honest and well brought up1 he sets an immoral youth near her1 and with all kinds of flattery deceives her1 and makes her fall into sin4 ,here the devil has dealt a blow with an axe4 ,here is an honorable citizen1 he enters the courts of the great lords2 there is the axe1 and so well sharpened1 that no strength of virtue can resist it4 ,but we are in these days in a sadder plight2 the demon has called his followers for the harvest1 and has struck terrible blows upon the doors of the temple4 ,the doors are those which lead into the house1 and the prelates are those who should lead the faithful into the church of ,christ4 ,it is because of this that the devil has dealt his great blows1 and broken the doors to pieces4 ,it is for this that good pastors are no longer to be found in the church4 ,do ye not perceive that they are bringing everything to ruin8 ,they have no judgment4 ,they can make no distinction between good and evil1 between truth and falsehood1 between sweet and bitter4 ,things good appear to them evil1 things true to them false1 the sweet are to them bitter1 the bitter sweet4 ,ye see prelates prostrating themselves before earthly affections and earthly things2 they no longer lay to heart the care of souls2 it is enough for them if they receive their incomes2 the sermons of their preachers are composed to please princes1 and be magnified by them4 ,but something worse yet remains2 not only have they destroyed the church of ,god1 but have erected one according to a fashion of their own4 ,this is the modern church1 no longer built with living stones1 that is1 by ,christians established in a living faith1 and so formed of love4 ,go to ,rome and through all ,christendom1 in the houses of the great prelates and the great lords1 nothing is thought of but poetry and the art of oratory4 ,go and see1 and you will find them with books of the humanities in their hands1 and giving themselves up to the belief that they know how to lead the souls of men aright by ,virgil1 ,horace1 and ,cicero4 ,do you wish to see the church guided by the hand of the astrologer8 ,ye will not find either prelate or great lord who is not in confidential intercourse with some astrologer1 who predicts to him the hour when he must ride or engage in some other affair4 ,these same great lords do not dare to move a step contrary to what their astrologer tells them4 ,there are only two things in that temple in which they find delight1 and these are the paintings1 and the gilding with which it is covered4 ,it is thus that in our church there are many beautiful external ceremonies in the solemnization of the holy offices1 splendid vestments and draperies1 with gold and silver candlesticks1 and many chalices1 all of which have a majestic effect4 ,there you see great prelates1 wearing golden miters1 set with precious stones1 on their heads1 and with silver crosiers1 standing before the altar with copes of brocade1 slowly intoning vespers and other masses with much ceremony1 accompanied by an organ and singers1 until ye become quite stupefied2 and these men appear to you to be men of great gravity and holiness1 and ye believe that they are incapable of error1 and they themselves believe that all they say and do is commanded by the gospel to be observed4 ,men feed upon those vanities1 and rejoice in those ceremonies1 and say that the church of ,christ was never in so flourishing a state1 and that divine worship was never so well conducted as in this day2 and that the first prelates were very contemptible preachers in comparison with those of modern times4 ,they certainly had not so many golden miters1 nor so many chalices2 and they parted with those they had to relieve the necessities of the poor2 our prelates get their chalices by taking that from the poor which is their support4 ,but dost thou know what ,i would say8 ,in the primitive church there were wooden chalices and golden prelates2 but now the church has golden chalices and wooden prelates4 ,they have established amongst us the festivals of the devil1 they believe not in ,god1 and make a mockery of the mysteries of our religion4 ,what doest thou1 ,o ,lord8 ,why slumberest thou8 ,arise and take the church out of the hands of the devil1 out of the hands of tyrants1 out of the hands of wicked prelates4 ,hast thou forgotten thy church8 ,dost thou not love her8 ,hast thou no care for her8 ,we are become1 ,o ,lord1 the opprobrium of the nations2 ,turks are masters of ,constantinople2 we have lost ,asia1 we have lost ,greece1 we are become tributaries of infidels4 ,o ,lord ,god1 thou hast dealt with us as an angry father1 thou hast banished us from before thee6 ,hasten the punishment and the scourge that there may be a speedy return to thee6 ,pour out thy wrath upon the nations6 ,be not scandalized1 my brethren1 by these words2 rather consider that when the good wish for punishment1 it is because they wish to see evil driven away and the blessed reign of ,jesus ,christ triumphant throughout the world4 ,we have no other hope left us1 unless the sword of the ,lord threatens the earth4 ,,the ,,cross ,,of ,,gold#ch ,w4 ,j4 ,,bryan ,i would be presumptuous1 indeed1 to present myself against the distinguished gentlemen to whom you have listened if this were a mere measuring of abilities2 but this is not a contest between persons4 ,the humblest citizen in all the land1 when clad in the armor of a righteous cause1 is stronger than all the hosts of error4 ,i come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty--the cause of humanity4 ,we object to bringing this question down to the level of persons4 ,the individual is but an atom2 he is born1 he acts1 he dies2 but principles are eternal2 and this has been a contest over a principle4 ,when you come before us and tell us that we are about to disturb your business interests1 we reply that you have disturbed our business interests by your course4 ,we say to you that you have made the definition of a business man too limited in its application4 ,the man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer2 the attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis2 the merchant at the cross-roads store is as much a business man as the merchant of ,new ,york2 the farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day1 who begins in spring and toils all summer1 and who by the application of brain and muscle to the natural resources of the country creates wealth1 is as much a business man as the man who goes upon the ,board of ,trade and bets upon the price of grain2 the miners who go down a thousand feet into the earth1 or climb two thousand feet upon the cliffs1 and bring forth from their hiding-places the precious metals to be poured into the channels of trade are as much business men as the few financial magnates who1 in a back room1 corner the money of the world4 ,we come to speak of this broader class of business men4 ,ah1 my friends1 we say not one word against those who live upon the ,atlantic ,coast1 but the hardy pioneers who have braved all the dangers of the wilderness1 who have made the desert to blossom as the rose--the pioneers away out there1 who rear their children near to ,nature's heart1 where they can mingle their voices with the voices of the birds--out there where they have erected schoolhouses for the education of their young1 churches where they praise their ,creator1 and cemeteries where rest the ashes of their dead--these people1 we say1 are as deserving of the consideration of our party as any people in this country4 ,it is for these that we speak4 ,we do not come as aggressors4 ,our war is not a war of conquest2 we are fighting in the defense of our homes1 our families1 and posterity4 ,we have petitioned1 and our petitions have been scorned2 we have entreated1 and our entreaties have been disregarded2 we have begged1 and they have mocked when our calamity came4 ,we beg no longer2 we entreat no more2 we petition no more4 ,we defy them6 ,we say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin and issue money is a function of government4 ,we believe it4 ,we believe that it is a part of sovereignty1 and can no more with safety be delegated to private individuals than we could afford to delegate to private individuals the power to make penal statutes or levy taxes4 ,mr4 ,jefferson seems to have differed in opinion from the gentleman who has addressed us on the part of the minority4 ,those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank1 and that the government ought to go out of the banking business4 ,i stand with ,jefferson rather than with them1 and tell them1 as he did1 that the issue of money is a function of government1 and that the banks ought to go out of the governing business4 ,and now1 my friends1 let me come to the paramount issue4 ,if they ask us why it is that we say more on the money question than we say upon the tariff question1 ,i reply that1 if protection has slain its thousands1 the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands4 ,if they ask us why we do not embody in our platform all the things that we believe in1 we reply that when we have restored the money of the ,constitution all other necessary reforms will be possible2 but that until this is done there is no other reform that can be accomplished4 ,why is it that within three months such a change has come over the country8 ,three months ago when it was confidently asserted that those who believe in the gold standard would frame our platform and nominate our candidates1 even the advocates of the gold standard did not think that we could elect a ,president4 ,why this change8 ,ah1 my friends1 is not the reason for the change evident to any one who will look at the matter8 ,no private character1 however pure1 no personal popularity1 however great1 can protect from the avenging wrath of an indignant people a man who will declare that he is in favor of fastening the gold standard upon this country1 or who is willing to surrender the right of self-government and place the legislative control of our affairs in the hands of foreign potentates and powers4 ,we go forth confident that we shall win4 ,why8 ,because upon the paramount issue of this campaign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy will dare to challenge battle4 ,if they tell us that the gold standard is a good thing1 we shall point to their platform and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of the gold standard and substitute bimetallism4 ,if the gold standard is a good thing1 why try to get rid of it8 ,if the gold standard is a bad thing1 why should we wait until other nations are willing to help us to let go8 ,here is the line of battle1 and we care not upon which issue they force the fight2 we are prepared to meet them on either issue or on both4 ,if they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization1 we reply to them that this1 the most enlightened of all the nations of the earth1 has never declared for a gold standard and that both the great parties this year are declaring against it4 ,if the gold standard is the standard of civilization1 why should we not have it8 ,if they come to meet us on that issue1 we can present the history of our nation4 ,more than that2 we can tell them that they will search the pages of history in vain to find a single instance where the common people of any land have ever declared themselves in favor of the gold standard4 ,they can find where the holders of fixed investments have declared for a gold standard1 but not where the masses have4 ,there are two ideas of government4 ,there are those who believe that1 if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous1 their prosperity will leak through on those below4 ,the ,democratic idea1 however1 has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous1 their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them4 ,you come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard2 we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies4 ,burn down your cities and leave our farms1 and your cities will spring up again as if by magic2 but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country4 ,my friends1 we declare that this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth2 and upon that issue we expect to carry every state in the ,union4 ,i shall not slander the inhabitants of the fair ,state of ,massachusetts nor the inhabitants of the ,state of ,new ,york by saying that1 when they are confronted with the proposition1 they will declare that this nation is not able to attend to its own business4 ,it is the issue of #aggf over again4 ,our ancestors1 when but three millions in number1 had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation2 shall we1 their descendants1 when we have grown to seventy millions1 declare that we are less independent than our forefathers8 ,no1 my friends1 that will never be the verdict of our people4 ,therefore1 we care not upon what lines the battle is fought4 ,if they say bimetallism is good1 but that we cannot have it until other nations help us1 we reply that1 instead of having a gold standard because ,england has1 we will restore bimetallism1 and then let ,england have bimetallism because the ,united ,states has it4 ,if they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing1 we will fight them to the uttermost4 ,having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world1 supported by the commercial interests1 the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere1 we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them3 ,you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns1 you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold4 ,,footnote3 #ch ,from a speech delivered in the city of ,chicago before the ,democratic ,national ,convention of #ahif4 ,,death ,,of ,,congressman ,,burnes ,j4 ,j4 ,,ingalls ,at this crisis and juncture1 when every instant is priceless1 the ,senate proceeds by unanimous consent to consider resolutions of the highest privilege1 and reverently pauses in obedience to the holiest impulses of human nature to contemplate the profoundest mystery of human destiny--the mystery of death4 ,in the democracy of death all men at least are equal4 ,there is neither rank1 nor station1 nor prerogative in the republic of the grave4 ,at that fatal threshold the philosopher ceases to be wise and the song of the poet is silent4 ,at that fatal threshold ,dives relinquishes his millions and ,lazarus his rags4 ,the poor man is as rich as the richest and the rich man is as poor as the pauper4 ,the creditor loses his usury and the debtor is acquitted of his obligation4 ,the proud man surrenders his dignity1 the politician his honors1 the worldling his pleasures4 ,james ,nelson ,burnes1 whose life and virtues we commemorate to-day1 was a man whom ,plutarch might have described and ,vandyke portrayed4 ,massive1 rugged and robust1 in motion slow1 in speech serious and deliberate1 grave in aspect1 serious in demeanor1 of antique and heroic mold1 the incarnation of force4 ,as ,i looked for the last time upon that countenance1 from which no glance of friendly recognition nor word of welcome came1 ,i reflected upon the impenetrable and insoluble mystery of death4 ,if death be the end1 if the life of ,burnes terminated upon this bank and shoal of time1 if no morning is to dawn upon the night in which he sleeps1 then sorrow has no consolation1 and this impressive and solemn ceremony which we observe to-day has no more significance than the painted pageant of the stage4 ,if the existence of ,burnes was but a troubled dream1 his death oblivion1 what avails it that the ,senate should pause to recount his virtues8 ,neither veneration nor reverence is due the dead if they are but dust2 no cenotaph should be reared to preserve for posterity the memory of their achievements if those who come after them are to be only their successors in annihilation and extinction4 ,if in this world only we have hope and consciousness duty must be a chimera2 our pleasures and our passions should be the guides of conduct1 and virtue is indeed a superstition if life ends at the grave4 ,this is the conclusion which the philosophy of negation must accept at last4 ,such is the felicity of those degrading precepts which make the epitaph the end4 ,if the life of ,burnes is as a taper that is burned out then we treasure his memory and his example in vain1 and the latest prayer of his departing spirit has no more sanctity to us1 who soon or late must follow him1 than the whisper of winds that stir the leaves of the protesting forest1 or the murmur of the waves that break upon the complaining shore4 ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,garfield#ci ,,james ,,gillespie ,,blaine ,on the morning of ,saturday1 ,july second1 the ,president was a contented and happy man--not in an ordinary degree1 but joyfully1 almost boyishly1 happy4 ,on his way to the railroad-station1 to which he drove slowly1 in conscious enjoyment of the beautiful morning1 with an unwonted sense of leisure and a keen anticipation of pleasure1 his talk was all in the grateful and gratulatory vein4 ,he felt that after four months of trial his administration was strong in its grasp of affairs1 strong in popular favor and destined to grow stronger2 that grave difficulties confronting him at his inauguration had been safely passed2 that trouble lay behind him1 and not before him2 that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved1 now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him2 that he was going to his alma mater to renew the most cherished associations of his young manhood1 and to exchange greetings with those whose deepening interest had followed every step of his upward progress from the day he entered upon his college course until he had attained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his countrymen4 ,surely1 if happiness can ever come from the honors or triumphs of this world1 on that quiet ,july morning ,james ,a4 ,garfield may well have been a happy man4 ,no foreboding of evil haunted him1 no slightest premonition of danger clouded his sky4 ,his terrible fate was upon him in an instant4 ,one moment he stood erect1 strong1 confident in the years stretching peacefully out before him4 ,the next he lay wounded1 bleeding1 helpless1 doomed to weary weeks of torture1 to silence and the grave4 ,great in life1 he was surpassingly great in death4 ,for no cause1 in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness1 by the red hand of ,murder he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest1 from its hopes1 its aspirations1 its victories1 into the visible presence of death4 ,and he did not quail4 ,not alone for the one short moment in which1 stunned and dazed1 he could give up life1 hardly aware of its relinquishment1 but through days of deadly languor1 through weeks of agony that was not less agony because silently borne1 with clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave4 ,what blight and ruin met his anguished eyes1 whose lips may tell8 ,what brilliant broken plans1 what baffled high ambitions1 what sundering of strong1 warm1 manhood's friendships1 what bitter rending of sweet household ties6 ,behind him a proud1 expectant nation2 a great host of sustaining friends2 a cherished and happy mother wearing the full1 rich honors of her early toil and tears2 the wife of his youth1 whose whole life lay in his2 the little boys not yet emerged from childhood's day of frolic2 the fair young daughter2 the sturdy sons just springing into closest companionship1 claiming every day1 and every day rewarding1 a father's love and care2 and in his heart the eager1 rejoicing power to meet all demand4 ,before him1 desolation and great darkness6 ,and his soul was not shaken4 ,his countrymen were thrilled with instant1 profound1 and universal sympathy4 ,masterful in his mortal weakness1 he became the center of a nation's love1 enshrined in the prayers of a world4 ,but all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering4 ,he trod the winepress alone4 ,with unfaltering front he faced death4 ,with unfailing tenderness he took leave of life4 ,above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of ,god4 ,with simple resignation he bowed to the divine decree4 ,as the end drew near1 his early craving for the sea returned4 ,the stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain1 and he begged to be taken from its prison-walls1 from its oppressive1 stifling air1 from its homelessness and its hopelessness4 ,gently1 silently1 the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea1 to live or to die1 as ,god should will1 within sight of its heaving billows1 within sound of its manifold voices4 ,with wan1 fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders1 on its far sails whitening in the morning light2 on its restless waves rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday sun2 on the red clouds of evening arching low to the horizon2 on the serene and shining pathway of the stars4 ,let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know4 ,let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore1 and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning4 ,,footnote3 #ci ,from a memorial oration delivered in the ,house of ,representatives1 ,february #bg1 #ahhb1 published by ,henry ,bill ,publishing ,co41 ,norwich1 ,conn4 ,,death ,,of ,,toussaint ,l',,overture#dj ,,wendell ,,phillips ,returning to the hills1 ,toussaint issued the only proclamation which bears his name1 and breathes vengeance3 ,my children1 ,france comes to make us slaves4 ,god gave us liberty4 ,france has no right to take it away4 ,burn the cities1 destroy the harvests1 tear up the roads with cannon1 poison the wells4 ,show the white man the hell he comes to make2 and he was obeyed4 ,when the great ,william of ,orange saw ,louis ,,xiv4 cover ,holland with troops1 he said3 ,break down the dikes1 give ,holland back to ocean2 and ,europe said1 ,sublime6 ,when ,alexander saw the armies of ,france descend upon ,russia1 he said3 ,burn ,moscow1 starve back the invaders6 and ,europe said1 ,sublime6 ,this black saw all ,europe come to crush him1 and gave to his people the same heroic example of defiance4 ,holland lent sixty ships4 ,england promised by special message to be neutral2 and you know neutrality means sneering at freedom1 and sending arms to tyrants4 ,england promised neutrality1 and the black looked out and saw the whole civilized world marshaled against him4 ,america1 full of slaves1 was of course hostile4 ,only the ,yankee sold him poor muskets at a very high price4 ,mounting his horse1 and riding to the eastern end of the island1 he looked out on a sight such as no native had ever seen before4 ,sixty ships of the line1 crowded by the best soldiers of ,europe1 rounded the point4 ,they were soldiers who had never yet met an equal1 whose tread1 like ,caesar's1 had shaken ,europe3 soldiers who had scaled the ,pyramids1 and planted the ,french banners on the walls of ,rome4 ,he looked a moment1 counted the flotilla1 let the reins fall on the neck of his horse1 and turning to ,christophe1 exclaimed3 ,all ,france is come to ,hayti2 they can only come to make us slaves2 and we are lost6 ,toussaint was too dangerous to be left at large4 ,so they summoned him to attend a council2 he went1 and the moment he entered the room the officers drew their swords and told him he was a prisoner4 ,they put him on shipboard and weighed anchor for ,france4 ,as the island faded from his sight he turned to the captain and said1 ,you think you have rooted up the tree of liberty1 but ,i am only a branch2 ,i have planted the tree so deep that all ,france can never root it up4 ,he was sent to a dungeon twelve feet by twenty1 built wholly of stone1 with a narrow window1 high up on one side1 looking out on the snows of ,switzerland4 ,in this living tomb the child of the sunny tropics was left to die4 ,but he did not die fast enough4 ,napoleon ordered the commandant to go into ,switzerland1 to carry the keys of the dungeon with him and stay four days4 ,when he returned1 ,toussaint was found starved to death4 ,napoleon1 that imperial assassin1 was taken1 twelve years later1 to his prison at ,st4 ,helena1 planned for a tomb1 as he had planned that of ,toussaint1 and there he whined away his dying hours in pitiful complaints4 ,god grant that when some future ,plutarch shall weigh the great men of our epoch1 he do not put that whining child of ,st4 ,helena into one scale1 and into the other the negro1 meeting death like a ,roman1 without a murmur1 in the solitude of his icy dungeon4 ,,footnote3 #dj ,by permission of the publishers1 ,lothrop1 ,lee ,shepard ,co4 ,,the ,,dedication ,,of ,,gettysburg ,,cemetery ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation1 conceived in ,liberty1 and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal4 ,now we are engaged in a great civil war1 testing whether that nation1 or any nation so conceived and so dedicated1 can long endure4 ,we are met on a great battle-field of that war4 ,we have met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live4 ,it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this4 ,but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate1 we cannot consecrate1 we cannot hallow this ground4 ,the brave men1 living and dead1 who struggled here have consecrated it far beyond our power to add or detract4 ,the world will little note1 nor long remember1 what we say here2 but it can never forget what they did here4 ,it is for us1 the living1 rather to be dedicated to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on4 ,it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us2 that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion2 that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain2 that this nation shall1 under ,god1 have a new birth of freedom1 and that government of the people1 by the people and for the people1 shall not perish from the earth4 ,,the ,,fallen ,,heroes ,,of ,,japan ,,admiral ,,heihaichiro ,,togo ,this speech was a part of a very impressive ,shinto ceremony in which the ,commander-in-,chief of the ,japanese fleets addressed the spirits of the officers and sailors who lost their lives during the war with ,russia4 ,for simple eloquence it has seldom been surpassed4 ,the clouds of war have disappeared from sea and from shore1 and the whole city1 with a peaceful1 placid heart like that of a child1 goes out to meet the men who shared life and death with you1 and who now return triumphant under the imperial standard1 while their families wait for them at the gates of their homes4 ,looking back1 we recall how1 bearing the bitter cold and enduring the fierce heat1 you fought again and again with our strong foe1 and while the issue of the contest was still uncertain you went before us to the grave1 leaving us to envy the glory you had won by your loyal deaths4 ,we longed to imitate you in paying the debt to sovereign and country4 ,your valiant and vehement fighting always achieved success4 ,in no combat did you fail to conquer4 ,throughout ten months the attack on ,port ,arthur continued and the result was determined4 ,in the ,sea of ,japan a single annihilating effort decided the issue4 ,thenceforth the enemy's shadow disappeared from the face of the ocean4 ,this success had its origin in the infinite virtues of the emperor1 but it could not have been achieved had not you1 forgetting yourselves1 sacrificed your lives in the public service4 ,the war is over4 ,we who return in triumph see signs of joy everywhere4 ,but we remember that we cannot share it with you1 and mingled feelings of sadness and rejoicing struggle painfully for expression4 ,the triumph of to-day has been purchased by your glorious deaths1 and your loyalty and valor will inspire our navy1 guarding the imperial land for all time4 ,we here perform this rite of worship to your spirits1 and speaking something of our sad thoughts1 pray you to come and receive the offerings we make4 ,,secession#da ,,alexander ,h4 ,,stephens ,mr4 ,president3 ,this step of secession1 once taken1 can never be recalled2 and all the baleful and withering consequences that must follow1 will rest on the convention for all coming time4 ,when we and our posterity shall see our lovely ,south desolated by the demon of war1 which this act of yours will inevitably invite and call forth2 when our green fields of waving harvest shall be trodden down by the murderous soldiery and fiery car of war sweeping over our land2 our temples of justice laid in ashes2 all the horrors and desolation of war upon us2 who but this ,convention will be held responsible for it8 ,and who but him who shall have given his vote for this unwise and ill-timed measure1 as ,i honestly think and believe1 shall be held to strict account for this suicidal act by the present generation1 and probably cursed and execrated by posterity for all coming time1 for the wide and desolating ruin that will inevitably follow this act you now propose to perpetrate8 ,pause1 ,i entreat you1 and consider for a moment what reasons you can give1 that will even satisfy yourselves in calmer moments--what reason you can give to your fellow-sufferers in the calamity that it will bring upon us4 ,what reasons can you give to the nations of the earth to justify it8 ,they will be the calm and deliberate judges in the case2 and what cause or one overt act can you name or point1 on which to rest the plea of justification8 ,what right has the ,north assailed8 ,what interest of the ,south has been invaded8 ,what justice has been denied8 ,and what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld8 ,can either of you to-day name one governmental act of wrong1 deliberately and purposely done by the government of ,washington1 of which the ,south has a right to complain8 ,i challenge the answer4 ,while1 on the other hand1 let me show the facts1 of which ,i wish you to judge1 and ,i will only state facts which are clear and undeniable1 and which now stand as records authentic in the history of our country4 ,when we of the ,south demanded the slave-trade1 or the importation of ,africans for the cultivation of our lands1 did they not yield the right for twenty years8 ,when we asked a three-fifths representation in ,congress for our slaves1 was it not granted8 ,when we asked and demanded the return of any fugitive from justice1 or the recovery of those persons owing labor or allegiance1 was it not incorporated in the ,constitution1 and again ratified and strengthened by the ,fugitive ,slave ,law of #ahej8 ,but do you reply that in many instances they have violated this compact1 and have not been faithful to their engagements8 ,as individual and local communities1 they may have done so2 but not by the sanction of government2 for that has always been true to ,southern interests4 ,again1 gentlemen1 look at another act2 when we have asked that more territory should be added1 that we might spread the institution of slavery1 have they not yielded to our demands in giving us ,louisiana1 ,florida1 and ,texas8 ,from these1 four ,states have been carved1 and ample territory for four more is to be added in due time1 if you1 by this unwise and impolitic act1 do not destroy this hope1 and1 perhaps1 by it lose all1 and have your last slave wrenched from you by stern military rule1 as ,south ,america and ,mexico were2 or by the vindictive decree of a universal emancipation which may reasonably be expected to follow4 ,but1 again1 gentlemen1 what have we to gain by this proposed change of our relation to the general government8 ,we have always had the control of it1 and can yet1 if we remain in it1 and are as united as we have been4 ,we have had a majority of the ,presidents chosen from the ,south1 as well as the control and management of most of those chosen from the ,north4 ,we have had sixty years of ,southern ,presidents to their twenty-four1 thus controlling the executive department4 ,so of the judges of the ,supreme ,court1 we have had eighteen from the ,south and but eleven from the ,north2 although nearly four-fifths of the judicial business has arisen in the free states1 yet a majority of the ,court has always been from the ,south4 ,this we have required so as to guard against any interpretation of the ,constitution unfavorable to us4 ,in like manner we have been equally watchful to guard our interests in the legislative branch of government4 ,in choosing the presidents of the ,senate1 we have had twenty-four to their eleven4 ,speakers of the ,house we have had twenty-three1 and they twelve4 ,while the majority of the representatives1 from their greater population1 have always been from the ,north1 yet we have generally secured the ,speaker1 because he1 to a great extent1 shapes and controls the legislation of the country4 ,nor have we had less control in every other department of the general government4 ,attorney-generals we have had fourteen1 while the ,north have had but five4 ,foreign ministers we have had eighty-six and they but fifty-four4 ,while three-fourths of the business which demands diplomatic agents abroad is clearly from the free states1 from their greater commercial interest1 yet we have had the principal embassies1 so as to secure the world-markets for our cotton1 tobacco1 and sugar on the best possible terms4 ,we have had a vast majority of the higher offices of both army and navy1 while a larger proportion of the soldiers and sailors were drawn from the ,north4 ,again1 from official documents1 we learn that a fraction over three-fourths of the revenue collected for the support of the government has uniformly been raised from the ,north4 ,leaving out of view1 for the present1 the countless millions of dollars you must expend in a war with the ,north2 with tens of thousands of your sons and brothers slain in battle1 and offered up as sacrifices upon the altar of your ambition--and for what1 we ask again8 ,is it for the overthrow of the ,american government1 established by our common ancestry1 cemented and built up by their sweat and blood1 and founded on the broad principles of right1 justice1 and humanity8 ,and as such1 ,i must declare here1 as ,i have often done before1 and which has been repeated by the greatest and wisest of statesmen and patriots1 in this and other lands1 that it is the best and freest government--the most equal in its rights1 the most just in its decisions1 the most lenient in its measures1 and the most aspiring in its principles1 to elevate the race of men1 that the sun of heaven ever shone upon4 ,now1 for you to attempt to overthrow such a government as this1 under which we have lived for more than three-quarters of a century--in which we have gained our wealth1 our standing as a nation1 our domestic safety1 while the elements of peril are around us1 with peace and tranquillity accompanied with unbounded prosperity and rights unassailed--is the height of madness1 folly1 and wickedness1 to which ,i neither lend my sanction nor my vote4 ,,footnote3 #da ,delivered at the ,georgia ,state ,convention1 ,january1 #ahfa4 ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,grady ,,john ,,temple ,,graves ,oh1 brilliant and incomparable ,grady6 ,we lay for a season thy precious dust beneath the soil that bore and cherished thee1 but we fling back against all our brightening skies the thoughtless speech that calls thee dead6 ,god reigns and ,his purpose lives1 and although these brave lips are silent here1 the seeds sown in his incarnate eloquence will sprinkle patriots through the years to come1 and perpetuate thy living in a race of nobler men6 ,but all our words are empty1 and they mock the air4 ,if we should speak the eulogy that fills this day1 let us build within the city that he loved1 a monument tall as his services1 and noble as the place he filled4 ,let every ,georgian lend a hand1 and as it rises to confront in majesty his darkened home1 let the widow who weeps there be told that every stone that makes it has been sawn from the sound prosperity that he builded1 and that the light which plays upon its summit is1 in afterglow1 the sunshine that he brought into the world4 ,and for the rest--silence4 ,the sweetest thing about his funeral was that no sound broke the stillness save the reading of the ,scriptures1 and the melody of music4 ,no fire that can be kindled upon the altar of speech can relume the radiant spark that perished yesterday4 ,no blaze born in all our eulogy can burn beside the sunlight of his useful life4 ,after all1 there is nothing grander than such living4 ,i have seen the light that gleamed from the headlight of some giant engine rushing onward through the darkness1 heedless of opposition1 fearless of danger1 and ,i thought it was grand4 ,i have seen the light come over the eastern hills in glory1 driving the hazy darkness like mist before a sea-born gale1 till leaf and tree and blade of grass glittered in the myriad diamonds of the morning ray1 and ,i thought it was grand4 ,i have seen the light that leaped at midnight athwart the storm-swept sky1 shivering over chaotic clouds1 mid howling winds1 till cloud and darkness and the shadow-haunted earth flashed into mid-day splendor1 and ,i knew it was grand4 ,but the grandest thing next to the radiance that flows from the ,almighty ,throne is the light of a noble and beautiful life1 wrapping itself in benediction round the destinies of men1 and finding its home in the blessed bosom of the ,everlasting ,god6 ,,the ,,glory ,,of ,,peace ,,charles ,,sumner ,the art of war is yet held even among ,christians to be an honorable pursuit4 ,it shall be for another age to appreciate the more exalted character of the art of benevolence which1 in blessed contrast with the misery1 the degradation1 the wickedness of war1 shall shine resplendent in the true grandeur of peace4 ,then shall the soul thrill with a nobler heroism than that of battle4 ,peaceful industry1 with untold multitudes of cheerful and beneficent laborers1 shall be its gladsome token4 ,literature1 full of sympathy and comfort for the heart of man1 shall appear in garments of purer glory than she has yet assumed4 ,science shall extend the bounds of knowledge and power1 adding unimaginable strength to the hands of men1 opening innumerable resources in the earth and revealing new secrets and harmonies in the skies4 ,the increasing beneficence and intelligence of our own day1 the broad-spread sympathy with suffering1 the widening thoughts of men1 the longings of the heart for a higher condition on earth1 the unfulfilled promises of ,christian progress are the auspicious auguries of this happy future4 ,as early voyagers over untried realms of waste we have already observed the signs of land4 ,the green and fresh red berries have floated by our bark1 the odors of the shore fan our faces1 nay1 we may seem to descry the distant gleam of light1 and hear from the more earnest observers1 as ,columbus heard1 after midnight from the masthead of the ,pinta1 the joyful cry of ,land6 ,land6 and lo6 a new world broke upon his early morning gaze4 ,,the ,,hope ,,of ,,the ,,republic ,h4 ,w4 ,,grady ,i went to ,washington the other day and ,i stood on the ,capitol hill1 and my heart beat quick as ,i looked at the towering marble of my country's ,capitol1 and a mist gathered in my eyes as ,i thought of its tremendous significance1 of the armies and the treasury1 and the judges and the ,president1 and the ,congress and the courts1 and all that was gathered there2 and ,i felt that the sun in all its course could not look down on a better sight than that majestic home of a ,republic that had taught the world its best lessons of liberty4 ,and ,i felt that if honor and wisdom and justice dwelt therein1 the world would at last owe that great house1 in which the ark of the covenant of my country is lodged1 its final uplifting and its regeneration4 ,but a few days afterwards ,i went to visit a friend in the country1 a modest man1 with a quiet country home4 ,it was just a simple1 unpretentious house1 set about with great trees and encircled in meadow and field rich with the promise of harvest2 the fragrance of the pink and the hollyhock in the front yard was mingled with the aroma of the orchard and the garden1 and the resonant clucking of poultry and the hum of bees4 ,inside was quiet1 cleanliness1 thrift and comfort4 ,outside there stood my friend1 the master1 a simple1 independent1 upright man1 with no mortgage on his roof1 no lien on his growing crops--master of his land and master of himself4 ,there was the old father1 an aged and trembling man1 but happy in the heart and home of his son4 ,and1 as he started to enter his home1 the hand of the old man went down on the young man's shoulder1 laying there the unspeakable blessing of an honored and honorable father1 and ennobling it with the knighthood of the fifth commandment4 ,and as we approached the door the mother came1 a happy smile lighting up her face1 while with the rich music of her heart she bade her husband and her son welcome to their home4 ,beyond was the housewife1 busy with her domestic affairs1 the loving helpmate of her husband4 ,down the lane came the children after the cows1 singing sweetly1 as like birds they sought the quiet of their nest4 ,so the night came down on that house1 falling gently as the wing of an unseen dove4 ,and the old man1 while a startled bird called from the forest and the trees thrilled with the cricket's cry1 and the stars were falling from the sky1 called the family around him and took the ,bible from the table and called them to their knees4 ,the little baby hid in the folds of its mother's dress while he closed the record of that day by calling down ,god's blessing on that simple home4 ,while ,i gazed1 the vision of the marble ,capitol faded2 forgotten were its treasuries and its majesty2 and ,i said1 ,surely here in the house of the people lodge at last the strength and the responsibility of this government1 the hope and the promise of this ,republic4 ,,hungarian ,,heroism ,,louis ,,kossuth ,gentlemen have said that it was ,i who inspired the ,hungarian people4 ,i cannot accept the praise4 ,no1 it was not ,i who inspired the ,hungarian people1 it was the ,hungarian people who inspired me4 ,whatever ,i thought and still think1 whatever ,i felt and still feel1 is but the pulsation of that heart which in the breast of my people beats4 ,the glory of battle is for the historic leaders4 ,theirs are the laurels of immortality4 ,and yet in encountering the danger1 they knew that1 alive or dead1 their names would1 on the lips of people1 forever live4 ,how different the fortune1 how nobler1 how purer the heroism of those children of the people who went forth freely to meet death in their country's cause1 knowing that where they fell they would lie undistinguished and unknown1 their names unhonored and unsung4 ,animated1 nevertheless1 by the love of freedom and the fatherland1 they went forth calmly singing their national anthems till1 rushing upon the batteries whose cross fires vomited upon them death and destruction1 they took them without firing a shot1--those who fell falling with the shout1 ,hurrah for ,hungary6 ,and so they died by thousands--the unnamed demigods6 ,such is the people of ,hungary4 ,still it is said it is ,i who have inspired them4 ,no6 a thousand times1 no6 ,it is they who have inspired me4 ,,international ,,relations#db ,,william ,,mckinley ,ladies and ,gentlemen1 ,i am glad to be again in the ,city of ,buffalo and exchange greetings with her people1 to whose generous hospitality ,i am not a stranger1 and with whose good will ,i have been repeatedly and signally honored4 ,expositions are the timekeepers of progress4 ,they record the world's advancement4 ,they stimulate the energy1 enterprise and intellect of the people and quicken human genius4 ,they go into the home4 ,they broaden and brighten the daily life of the people4 ,they open mighty storehouses of information to the student4 ,the wisdom and energy of all the nations are none too great for the world's work4 ,the success of art1 science1 industry and invention is an international asset and a common glory4 ,after all1 how near one to the other is every part of the world4 ,modern inventions have brought into close relation widely separated peoples1 and made them better acquainted4 ,geographic and political divisions will continue to exist1 but distances have been effaced4 ,swift ships and fast trains are becoming cosmopolitan4 ,they invade fields which a few years ago were impenetrable4 ,the world's products are exchanged as never before1 and with increasing transportation facilities come increasing knowledge and trade4 ,prices are fixed with mathematical precision by supply and demand4 ,the world's selling prices are regulated by market and crop reports4 ,we travel greater distances in a shorter space of time1 and with more ease than was ever dreamed of by the fathers4 ,isolation is no longer possible or desirable4 ,the same important news is read1 though in different languages1 the same day in all ,christendom4 ,the telegraph keeps us advised of what is occurring everywhere1 and the press foreshadows1 with more or less accuracy1 the plans and purposes of the nations4 ,market prices of products and of securities are hourly known in every commercial mart1 and the investments of the people extend beyond their own national boundaries into the remotest parts of the earth4 ,vast transactions are conducted and international exchanges are made by the tick of the cable4 ,every event of interest is immediately bulletined4 ,the quick gathering and transmission of news1 like rapid transit1 are of recent origin1 and are only made possible by the genius of the inventor and the courage of the investor4 ,it took a special messenger of the government1 with every facility known at the time for rapid travel1 nineteen days to go from the ,city of ,washington to ,new ,orleans with a message to ,general ,jackson that the war with ,england had ceased and a treaty of peace had been signed4 ,how different now6 ,we reached ,general ,miles in ,porto ,rico by cable1 and he was able through the military telegraph to stop his army on the firing line with the message that the ,united ,states and ,spain had signed a protocol suspending hostilities4 ,we knew almost instantly of the first shots fired at ,santiago1 and the subsequent surrender of the ,spanish forces was known at ,washington within less than an hour of its consummation4 ,the first ship of ,cervera's fleet had hardly emerged from that historic harbor when the fact was flashed to our capital and the swift destruction that followed was announced immediately through the wonderful medium of telegraphy4 ,at the beginning of the nineteenth century there was not a mile of steam railroad on the globe4 ,now there are enough miles to make its circuit many times4 ,then there was not a line of electric telegraph2 now we have vast mileage traversing all lands and all seas4 ,god and man have linked the nations together4 ,no nation can longer be indifferent to any other4 ,and as we are brought more and more in touch with each other the less occasion there is for misunderstandings and the stronger the disposition1 when we have differences1 to adjust them in the court of arbitration1 which is the noblest forum for the settlement of international disputes4 ,the period of exclusiveness is past4 ,the expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem4 ,commercial wars are unprofitable4 ,a policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals4 ,reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times2 measures of retaliation are not4 ,if perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home1 why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad8 ,then1 too1 we have inadequate steamship service4 ,new lines of steamers have already been put in commission between the ,pacific coast ports of the ,united ,states and those on the western coasts of ,mexico and ,central and ,south ,america4 ,these should be followed up with direct steamship lines between the eastern coast of the ,united ,states and ,south ,american ports4 ,one of the needs of the times is direct commercial lines from our vast fields of production to the fields of consumption that we have but barely touched4 ,next in advantage to having the thing to sell is to have the convenience to carry it to the buyer4 ,we must encourage our merchant marine4 ,we must have more ships4 ,they must be under the ,american flag1 built and manned and owned by ,americans4 ,these will not be profitable in a commercial sense2 they will be messengers of peace and amity wherever they go4 ,we must build the isthmian canal1 which will unite the two oceans and give a straight line of water communication with the western coasts of ,central ,america1 ,south ,america and ,mexico4 ,the construction of a ,pacific cable cannot be longer postponed4 ,in the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern you are performing an important part4 ,this exposition would have touched the heart of that ,american statesman whose mind was ever alert and thought ever constant for a larger commerce and a truer fraternity of the republics of the new world4 ,his broad ,american spirit is felt and manifested here4 ,he needs no identification to an assemblage of ,americans anywhere1 for the name of ,blaine is inseparably associated with the pan-,american movement1 which finds this practical and substantial expression and which we all hope will be firmly advanced by the pan-,american congress that assembles this autumn in the capital of ,mexico4 ,the good work will go on4 ,it cannot be stopped4 ,these buildings will disappear1 this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish from sight1 but their influence will remain to ,make it live beyond its too short living ,with praises and thanksgiving4 ,who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakened1 and ambitions fired1 and the high achievements that will be wrought through this ,exposition8 ,gentlemen1 let us ever remember that our interest is in concord1 not conflict1 and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace1 not those of war4 ,we hope that all who are represented here may be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's good1 and that out of this city may come not only greater commerce and trade for us all1 but1 more essential than these1 relations of mutual respect1 confidence and friendship which will deepen and endure4 ,our earnest prayer is that ,god will graciously vouchsafe prosperity1 happiness and peace to all our neighbors and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth4 ,,footnote3 #db ,his last speech1 delivered at the ,buffalo ,exposition1 ,september #e1 #aija4 ,,irish ,,home ,,rule#dc ,,william ,e4 ,,gladstone ,i may without impropriety remind the ,house that the voices which usually pleaded the cause of ,irish self-government in ,irish affairs have within these walls during the last seven years been almost entirely mute4 ,i return therefore to the period of #ahhf1 when a proposition of this kind was submitted on the part of the government1 and ,i beg to remind the ,house of the position then taken up by all the promoters of these measures4 ,we said that we had arrived at a point in our transactions with ,ireland where the two roads parted4 ,you have1 we said1 to choose one or the other4 ,one is the way of ,irish autonomy according to the conceptions ,i have just referred to1 the other is the way of coercion4 ,what has been the result of the dilemma as it was then put forward on this side of the ,house and repelled by the other8 ,has our contention that the choice lay between autonomy and coercion been justified or not8 ,what has become of each and all of these important schemes for giving ,ireland self-government in provinces and giving her even a central establishment in ,dublin with limited powers8 ,all vanished into thin air1 but the reality remains4 ,the roads were still there1 autonomy or coercion4 ,the choice lay between them1 and the choice made was to repel autonomy and embrace coercion4 ,in #ahhf for the first time coercion was imposed on ,ireland in the shape of a permanent law added to the statute book4 ,this state of things constituted an offense against the harmony and traditions of self-government4 ,it was a distinct and violent breach of the promise on the faith of which union was obtained4 ,the permanent system of repression inflicted upon the country a state of things which could not continue to exist4 ,it was impossible to bring the inhabitants of the country under coercion into sympathy with the coercion power4 ,it was then prophesied confidently that ,irishmen would take their places in the ,cabinet of the ,united ,kingdom1 but it has been my honored destiny to sit in ,cabinet with no less than sixty to seventy statesmen1 of whom only one1 the ,duke of ,wellington1 was an ,irishman1 while ,castlereagh was the only other ,irishman who has sat in the ,cabinet since union4 ,pitt promised equal laws when the union was formed1 but the broken promises made to ,ireland are unhappily written in indelible characters in the history of the country4 ,it is to me astonishing that so little weight is attached by many to the fact that ,irish wishes of self-government were represented only by a small minority4 ,now what voting power are the eighty members to have8 ,ireland is to be represented here fully2 that is my first postulate4 ,my second postulate is that ,ireland is to be invested with separate powers1 subject1 no doubt1 to imperial authority4 ,ireland is to be endowed with separate powers over ,irish affairs4 ,then the question before us is3 ,is she or is she not to vote so strongly upon matters purely ,british8 ,there are reasons both ways4 ,we cannot cut them off in a manner perfectly clean and clear from these questions4 ,we cannot find an absolutely accurate line of cleavage between questions that are imperial questions and those that are ,irish questions4 ,unless ,irish members vote on all questions you break the parliamentary tradition4 ,the presence of eighty members with only limited powers of voting is a serious breach of that tradition1 which ought to be made the subject of most careful consideration4 ,now come the reasons against the universal voting powers4 ,it is difficult to say3 ,everything on that side ,irish1 everything on this side imperial4 ,that1 ,i think1 you cannot do4 ,if you ask me for a proportion1 ,i say nine-tenths1 perhaps nineteen-twentieths1 of the business of ,parliament can without difficulty be classed as ,irish or imperial4 ,it would be a great anomaly if these eighty ,irish members should come here continually to intervene in questions purely and absolutely ,british4 ,if some large question or controversy in ,british affairs should then come up1 causing a deep and vital severing of the two great parties in this ,house1 and the members of those parties knew that they could bring over eighty members from ,ireland to support their views1 ,i am afraid a case like that would open a possible door to dangerous political intrigue4 ,the whole subject is full of thorns and brambles1 but our object is the autonomy and self-government of ,ireland in all matters properly ,irish4 ,i wish to supply the keynote to the financial part of the legislation4 ,that keynote is to be found in the provision included in our plans from the first1 and wisely and generously acceded to by ,ireland through her representatives1 that there is to be but one system of legislation as far as external things are concerned that will be found to entail very important consequences4 ,it has guided us to the conclusion at which we arrived of unity of commercial legislation for the three kingdoms4 ,by adopting this keynote we can attain to the most valuable results and will be likely to avoid the clashing of agents of the ,imperial and agents of the ,irish ,government4 ,we can make1 under cover of this proposal1 a larger and more liberal transfer to ,ireland in the management of her own affairs than we could make if we proceeded on any other principles4 ,the principle to which we are bound to give effect in ,ireland is3 ,ireland has to bear a fair share of imperial expenditure4 ,i will now release the ,house from the painful consideration of details which it has pursued with unexampled patience4 ,i must say1 however1 for my own part that ,i never will and never can be a party to bequeathing to my country the continuance of this heritage of discord which has been handed down from generation to generation1 with hardly momentary interruption1 through seven centuries--this heritage of discord1 with all the evils that follow in its train4 ,i wish no part in that process4 ,it would be misery for me if ,i had foregone or omitted in these closing years of my life any measure it was possible for me to take toward upholding and promoting the cause which ,i believe to be the cause--not of one party or one nation--but of all parties and all nations4 ,to these nations1 viewing them as ,i do1 with their vast opportunities1 under a living union for power and happiness1 to these nations ,i say3 ,let me entreat you--if it were my latest breath ,i would so entreat you--let the dead bury their dead1 and cast behind you former recollections of bygone evils2 cherish love and sustain one another through all the vicissitudes of human affairs in times that are to come4 ,,footnote3 #dc ,delivered in the ,house of ,commons1 ,february #ac1 #ahic4 ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,,emilio ,,castelar ,the past century has not1 the century to come will not have1 a figure so grand as that of ,abraham ,lincoln1 because as evil disappears so disappears heroism also4 ,i have often contemplated and described his life4 ,born in a cabin of ,kentucky1 of parents who could hardly read2 born a new ,moses in the solitude of the desert1 where are forged all great and obstinate thoughts1 monotonous like the desert1 and growing up among those primeval forests1 which1 with their fragrance1 send a cloud of incense1 and1 with their murmurs1 a cloud of prayers to heaven2 a boatman at eight years in the impetuous current of the ,ohio1 and at seventeen in the vast and tranquil waters of the ,mississippi2 later1 a woodman1 with axe and arm felling the immemorial trees1 to open a way to unexplored regions for his tribe of wandering workers2 reading no other book than the ,bible1 the book of great sorrows and great hopes1 dictated often by prophets to the sound of fetters they dragged through ,nineveh and ,babylon2 a child of ,nature2 in a word1 by one of those miracles only comprehensible among free peoples1 he fought for the country1 and was raised by his fellow-citizens to the ,congress at ,washington1 and by the nation to the ,presidency of the ,republic2 and when the evil grew more virulent1 when those ,states were dissolved1 when the slave-holders uttered their war-cry and the slaves their groans of despair1 humblest of the humble before his conscience1 greatest of the great before history1 ascends the ,capitol1 the greatest moral height of our time1 and strong and serene with his conscience and his thought2 before him a veteran army1 hostile ,europe behind him1 ,england favoring the ,south1 ,france encouraging reaction in ,mexico1 in his hands the riven country2 he arms two millions of men1 gathers half a million of horses1 sends his artillery twelve hundred miles in a week1 from the banks of the ,potomac to the shores of the ,tennessee2 fights more than six hundred battles2 renews before ,richmond the deeds of ,alexander1 of ,caesar2 and1 after having emancipated three million slaves1 that nothing might be wanting1 he dies in the very moment of victory--like ,christ1 like ,socrates1 like all redeemers1 at the foot of his work4 ,his work6 sublime achievement6 over which humanity shall eternally shed its tears1 and ,god his benedictions6 ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,,james ,a4 ,,garfield ,in the great drama of the rebellion there were two acts4 ,the first was the war1 with its battles and sieges1 its victories and defeats1 its sufferings and tears4 ,just as the curtain was lifting on the second and final act1 the restoration of peace and liberty1 the evil spirit of the rebellion1 in the fury of despair1 nerved and directed the hand of an assassin to strike down the chief character in both4 ,it was no one man who killed ,abraham ,lincoln2 it was the embodied spirit of treason and slavery1 inspired with fearful and despairing hate1 that struck him down in the moment of the nation's supremest joy4 ,sir1 there are times in the history of men and nations when they stand so near the veil that separates mortals from immortals1 time from eternity1 and men from ,god that they can almost hear the beatings and pulsations of the heart of the ,infinite4 ,through such a time has this nation passed4 ,when two hundred and fifty thousand brave spirits passed from the field of honor1 through that thin veil1 to the presence of ,god1 and when at last its parting folds admitted the martyr ,president to the company of those dead heroes of the ,republic1 the nation stood so near the veil that the whispers of ,god were heard by the children of men4 ,awe-stricken by his voice1 the ,american people knelt in tearful reverence and made a solemn covenant with ,him and with each other that this nation should be saved from its enemies1 that all its glories should be restored1 and1 on the ruins of slavery and treason1 the temples of freedom and justice should be built1 and should survive forever4 ,it remains for us1 consecrated by that great event and under a covenant with ,god1 to keep that faith1 to go forward in the great work until it shall be completed4 ,following the lead of that great man1 and obeying the high behests of ,god1 let us remember that3 ,he has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat2 ,he is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat2 ,oh1 be swift1 my soul1 to answer him6 be jubilant1 my feet6 ,our ,god is marching on4 ,,louisiana ,,purchase ,,exposition#dd ,,john ,,hay ,i thank you1 ,mr4 ,chairman2 ,i thank you1 gentlemen--all of you--for your too generous and amiable welcome4 ,i esteem it a great privilege to meet so many representatives of an estate which1 more than any other1 at this hour controls the world4 ,it is my daily duty in ,washington to confer with the able and distinguished representatives of civilized sovereigns and states4 ,but we are all aware that the days of personal government are gone forever2 that behind us1 and behind the rulers we represent1 there stands the vast1 irresistible power of public opinion1 which in the last resort must decide all the questions we discuss1 and whose judgment is final4 ,in your persons ,i greet the organs and exponents of that tremendous power with all the respect which is due to you and your constituency1 deeply sensible of the honor which has been done me in making me the mouthpiece of the sentiment of appreciation and regard with which the nation welcomes you to this great festival of peace and of progress4 ,upon none of the arts or professions has the tremendous acceleration of progress in recent years had more effect than upon that of which you are the representatives4 ,we easily grow used to miracles2 it will seem a mere commonplace when ,i say that all the wonders of the magicians invented by those ingenious oriental poets who wrote the ,arabian ,nights pale before the stupendous facts which you handle in your daily lives4 ,the air has scarcely ceased to vibrate with the utterances of kings and rulers in the older realms when their words are read in the streets of ,st4 ,louis and on the farms of ,nebraska4 ,the telegraph is too quick for the calendar2 you may read in your evening paper a dispatch from the antipodes with a date of the following day4 ,the details of a battle on the shores of the ,hermit ,kingdom1 a land which a few years ago was hidden in the mists of legend1 are printed and commented on before the blood of the wounded has ceased to flow4 ,almost before the smoke of the conflict has lifted we read the obituaries of the unsepultured dead4 ,and not only do you record with the swiftness of thought these incidents of war and violence1 but the daily victories of truth over error1 of light over darkness2 the spread of commerce in distant seas1 the inventions of industry1 the discoveries of science1 are all placed instantly within the knowledge of millions4 ,the seeds of thought1 perfected in one climate1 blossom and fructify under every sky1 in every nationality which the sun visits4 ,with these miraculous facilities1 with this unlimited power1 comes also an enormous responsibility in the face of ,god and man4 ,i am not here to preach to you a gospel whose lessons are known to you far better than to me4 ,i am not calling sinners to repentance1 but ,i am following a good tradition in stirring up the pure minds of the righteous by way of remembrance4 ,it is well for us to reflect on the vast import1 the endless chain of results1 of that globe-encircling speech you address each day to the world4 ,your winged words have no fixed flight2 like the lightning1 they traverse the ether according to laws of their own4 ,they light in every clime2 they influence a thousand different varieties of minds and manners4 ,how vastly important is it1 then1 that the sentiments they convey should be those of good will rather than of malevolence1 those of national concord rather than of prejudice1 those of peace rather than of hostility4 ,the temptation to the contrary is almost irresistible4 ,i acknowledge with contrition how often ,i have fallen by the way4 ,it is far more amusing to attack than to defend1 to excite than to soothe4 ,but the highest victory of great power is that of self-restraint1 and it would be a beneficent result of this memorable meeting1 this oecumenical council of the press1 if it taught us all--the brethren of this mighty priesthood--that mutual knowledge of each other which should modify prejudices1 restrain acerbity of thought and expression1 and tend in some degree to bring in that blessed time-- ,when light shall spread and man be liker man ,through all the season of the ,golden ,year4 ,what better school was ever seen in which to learn the lesson of mutual esteem and forbearance than this great exposition8 ,the nations of the earth are met here in friendly competition4 ,the first thing that strikes the visitor is the infinite diversity of thought and effort which characterizes the several exhibits2 but a closer study every day reveals a resemblance of mind and purpose more marvelous still4 ,integrity1 industry1 the intelligent adaptation of means to ends1 are everywhere the indispensable conditions of success4 ,honest work1 honest dealing1 these qualities mark the winner in every part of the world4 ,the artist1 the poet1 the artisan1 and the statesman1 they everywhere stand or fall through the lack or the possession of similar qualities4 ,how shall one people hate or despise another when we have seen how like us they are in most respects1 and how superior they are in some6 ,why should we not revert to the ancient wisdom which regarded nothing human as alien1 and to the words of ,holy ,writ which remind us that the ,almighty has made all men brethren8 ,in the name of the ,president--writer1 soldier1 and statesman1 eminent in all three professions and in all equally an advocate of justice1 peace1 and good will--,i bid you a cordial welcome1 with the prayer that this meeting of the representatives of the world's intelligence may be fruitful in advantage to the press of all nations and may bring us somewhat nearer to the dawn of the day of peace on earth and good will among men4 ,let us remember that we are met to celebrate the transfer of a vast empire from one nation to another without the firing of a shot1 without the shedding of one drop of blood4 ,if the press of the world would adopt and persist in the high resolve that war should be no more1 the clangor of arms would cease from the rising of the sun to its going down1 and we could fancy that at last our ears1 no longer stunned by the din of armies1 might hear the morning stars singing together and all the sons of ,god shouting for joy4 ,,footnote3 #dd ,address of the ,secretary of ,state at the opening of the ,press ,parliament of the ,world1 at ,st4 ,louis1 on the #aith of ,may1 #aijd4 ,used by permission of ,mrs4 ,hay4 ,,the ,,man ,,with ,,the ,,muck-,,rake#de ,,theodore ,,roosevelt ,in ,bunyan's ,pilgrim's ,progress you may recall the description of the ,man with the ,muck-rake1 the man who could look no way but downward1 with the muck-rake in his hand2 who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake1 but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered1 but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor4 ,in ,pilgrim's ,progress the ,man with the ,muck-rake is set forth as the example of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things4 ,yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty1 and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing4 ,now1 it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing4 ,there is filth on the floor1 and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake2 and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed4 ,but the man who never does anything else1 who never thinks or speaks or writes1 save of his feats with the muck-rake1 speedily becomes1 not a help to society1 not an incitement to good1 but one of the most potent forces for evil4 ,there are1 in the body politic1 economic and social1 many and grave evils1 and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them4 ,there should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man1 whether politician or business man1 every evil practice1 whether in politics1 in business1 or in social life4 ,i hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker1 every man who1 on the platform1 or in book1 magazine1 or newspaper1 with merciless severity makes such attack1 provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful4 ,the liar is no whit better than the thief1 and if his mendacity takes the form of slander1 he may be worse than most thieves4 ,it puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man1 or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth4 ,an epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does not good1 but very great harm4 ,the soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed1 or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed4 ,now1 it is easy to twist out of shape what ,i have just said1 easy to affect to misunderstand it1 and1 if it is slurred over in repetition1 not difficult really to misunderstand it4 ,some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud-slinging does not mean the indorsement of whitewashing2 and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing1 and those others who practice mud-slinging1 like to encourage such confusion of ideas4 ,one of the chief counts against those who make indiscriminate assault upon men in business or men in public life1 is that they invite a reaction which is sure to tell powerfully in favor of the unscrupulous scoundrel who really ought to be attacked1 who ought to be exposed1 who ought1 if possible1 to be put in the penitentiary4 ,if ,aristides is praised overmuch as just1 people get tired of hearing it2 and overcensure of the unjust finally and from similar reasons results in their favor4 ,any excess is almost sure to invite a reaction2 and1 unfortunately1 the reaction1 instead of taking the form of punishment of those guilty of the excess1 is very apt to take the form either of punishment of the unoffending or of giving immunity1 and even strength1 to offenders4 ,the effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity4 ,gross and reckless assaults on character1 whether on the stump or in newspaper1 magazine1 or book1 create a morbid and vicious public sentiment1 and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price4 ,as an instance in point1 ,i may mention that one serious difficulty encountered in getting the right type of men to dig the ,panama ,canal is the certainty that they will be exposed1 both without1 and1 ,i am sorry to say1 sometimes within ,congress1 to utterly reckless assaults on their character and capacity4 ,at the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is1 not for immunity to but for the most unsparing exposure of the politician who betrays his trust1 of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways4 ,there should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced4 ,expose the crime1 and hunt down the criminal2 but remember that even in the case of crime1 if it is attacked in sensational1 lurid1 and untruthful fashion1 the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself4 ,it is because ,i feel that there should be no rest in the endless war against the forces of evil that ,i ask that the war be conducted with sanity as well as with resolution4 ,the men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society2 but only if they know when to stop raking the muck1 and to look upward to the celestial crown above them1 to the crown of worthy endeavor4 ,there are beautiful things above and round about them2 and if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck1 their power of usefulness is gone4 ,if the whole picture is painted black1 there remains no hue whereby to single out the rascals for distinction from their fellows4 ,such painting finally induces a kind of moral color-blindness2 and people affected by it come to the conclusion that no man is really black1 and no man really white1 but they are all gray4 ,in other words1 they neither believe in the truth of the attack1 nor in the honesty of the man who is attacked2 they grow as suspicious of the accusation as of the offense2 it becomes well-nigh hopeless to stir them either to wrath against wrong-doing or to enthusiasm for what is right2 and such a mental attitude in the public gives hope to every knave1 and is the despair of honest men4 ,to assail the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the searing of the public conscience4 ,there results a general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad4 ,either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole4 ,the fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well-nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad4 ,there is nothing more distressing to every good patriot1 to every good ,american1 than the hard1 scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter4 ,such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot1 for it denotes not merely the vacant mind1 but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition4 ,there is any amount of good in the world1 and there never was a time when loftier and more disinterested work for the betterment of mankind was being done than now4 ,the forces that tend for evil are great and terrible1 but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before4 ,it is a foolish and timid1 no less than a wicked thing1 to blink the fact that the forces of evil are strong1 but it is even worse to fail to take into account the strength of the forces that tell for good4 ,hysterical sensationalism is the very poorest weapon wherewith to fight for lasting righteousness4 ,the men who1 with stern sobriety and truth1 assail the many evils of our time1 whether in the public press1 or in magazines1 or in books1 are the leaders and allies of all engaged in the work for social and political betterment4 ,but if they give good reason for distrust of what they say1 if they chill the ardor of those who demand truth as a primary virtue1 they thereby betray the good cause1 and play into the hands of the very men against whom they are nominally at war4444 ,at this moment we are passing through a period of great unrest--social1 political1 and industrial unrest4 ,it is of the utmost importance for our future that this should prove to be not the unrest of mere rebelliousness against life1 of mere dissatisfaction with the inevitable inequality of conditions1 but the unrest of a resolute and eager ambition to secure the betterment of the individual and the nation4 ,so far as this movement of agitation throughout the country takes the form of a fierce discontent with evil1 of a determination to punish the authors of evil1 whether in industry or politics1 the feeling is to be heartily welcomed as a sign of healthy life4 ,if1 on the other hand1 it turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite1 of a contest between the brutal greed of the have-nots and the brutal greed of the haves1 then it has no significance for good1 but only for evil4 ,if it seeks to establish a line of cleavage1 not along the line which divides good men from bad1 but along that other line1 running at right angles thereto1 which divides those who are well off from those who are less well off1 then it will be fraught with immeasurable harm to the body politic4 ,we can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital4 ,the wealthy man who exults because there is a failure of justice in the effort to bring some trust magnate to an account for his misdeeds is as bad as1 and no worse than1 the so-called labor leader who clamorously strives to excite a foul class feeling on behalf of some other labor leader who is implicated in murder4 ,one attitude is as bad as the other1 and no worse2 in each case the accused is entitled to exact justice2 and in neither case is there need of action by others which can be construed into an expression of sympathy for crime4 ,it is a prime necessity that if the present unrest is to result in permanent good the emotion shall be translated into action1 and that the action shall be marked by honesty1 sanity and self-restraint4 ,there is mighty little good in a mere spasm of reform4 ,the reform that counts is that which comes through steady1 continuous growth2 violent emotionalism leads to exhaustion4444 ,the first requisite in the public servants who are to deal in this shape with corporations1 whether as legislators or as executives1 is honesty4 ,this honesty can be no respecter of persons4 ,there can be no such thing as unilateral honesty4 ,the danger is not really from corrupt corporations2 it springs from the corruption itself1 whether exercised for or against corporations4 ,the eighth commandment reads1 ,thou shalt not steal4 ,it does not read1 ,thou shalt not steal from the rich man4 ,it does not read1 ,thou shalt not steal from the poor man4 ,it reads simply and plainly1 ,thou shalt not steal4 ,no good whatever will come from that warped and mock morality which denounces the misdeeds of men of wealth and forgets the misdeeds practiced at their expense2 which denounces bribery1 but blinds itself to blackmail2 which foams with rage if a corporation secures favors by improper methods1 and merely leers with hideous mirth if the corporation is itself wronged4 ,the only public servant who can be trusted honestly to protect the rights of the public against the misdeed of a corporation is that public man who will just as surely protect the corporation itself from wrongful aggression4 ,if a public man is willing to yield to popular clamor and do wrong to the men of wealth or to rich corporations1 it may be set down as certain that if the opportunity comes he will secretly and furtively do wrong to the public in the interest of a corporation4 ,but1 in addition to honesty1 we need sanity4 ,no honesty will make a public man useful if that man is timid or foolish1 if he is a hot-headed zealot or an impracticable visionary4 ,as we strive for reform we find that it is not at all merely the case of a long uphill pull4 ,on the contrary1 there is almost as much of breeching work as of collar work2 to depend only on traces means that there will soon be a runaway and an upset4 ,the men of wealth who to-day are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper ,government authorities will not succeed1 in my judgment1 in checking the progress of the movement4 ,but if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind1 for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth4 ,on the other hand1 the wild preachers of unrest and discontent1 the wild agitators against the entire existing order1 the men who act crookedly1 whether because of sinister design or from mere puzzleheadedness1 the men who preach destruction without proposing any substitute for what they intend to destroy1 or who propose a substitute which would be far worse than the existing evils--all these men are the most dangerous opponents of real reform4 ,if they get their way1 they will lead the people into a deeper pit than any into which they could fall under the present system4 ,if they fail to get their way1 they will still do incalculable harm by provoking the kind of reaction which1 in its revolt against the senseless evil of their teaching1 would enthrone more securely than ever the very evils which their misguided followers believe they are attacking4 ,more important than aught else is the development of the broadest sympathy of man for man4 ,the welfare of the wage-worker1 the welfare of the tiller of the soil1 upon these depend the welfare of the entire country2 their good is not to be sought in pulling down others2 but their good must be the prime object of all our statesmanship4 ,materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men1 so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made4 ,spiritually and ethically we must strive to bring about clean living and right thinking4 ,we appreciate that the things of the body are important2 but we appreciate also that the things of the soul are immeasurably more important4 ,the foundation stone of national life is1 and ever must be1 the high individual character of the average citizen4 ,,footnote3 #de ,from an address delivered by the ,president at the laying of the corner-stone of the ,office ,building of the ,house of ,representatives1 ,april #ad1 #aijf4 ,,message ,,to ,,the ,,squadron#df ,,admiral ,,heihaichiro ,,togo ,the war of twenty months' duration is now a thing of the past1 and our united squadron1 having completed its functions1 is to be herewith dispersed4 ,but our duties as naval men are not at all lightened for that reason4 ,to preserve in perpetuity the fruits of this war1 to promote to ever greater heights of prosperity the fortunes of the country1 the navy1 which1 irrespective of peace or war1 has to stand between the ,empire and shocks from abroad1 must always maintain its strength at sea and must be prepared to meet any emergency4 ,this strength does not consist solely in ships and armaments1 it consists also in material ability to utilize such agents4 ,when we understand that one gun that scores a hundred per cent of hits is a match for a hundred of the enemy's guns each of which scores only one per cent1 it becomes evident that we sailors must have recourse before everything to the strength which is over and above externals4 ,the triumphs recently won by our navy are largely to be attributed to the habitual training which enabled us to garner the fruits of the fighting4 ,if1 then1 we infer the future from the past1 we recognize that1 though wars may cease1 we cannot abandon ourselves to ease and rest4 ,a soldier's whole life is one continuous and unceasing battle1 and there is no reason why his responsibilities should vary with the state of the times4 ,in days of crisis he has to display his strength1 in days of peace to accumulate it1 thus perpetually and uniquely discharging his duties to the full4 ,if men calling themselves sailors grasp at the pleasures of peace1 they will learn the lesson that1 however fine in appearance their engines of war1 those1 like a house built on the sand1 will fall at the first approach of the storm4 ,when in ancient times we conquered ,korea that country remained over four hundred years under our control1 only to be lost by ,japan as soon as our navy had declined4 ,again1 when under the sway of the ,tokugawa in modern days our armaments were neglected1 the coming of a few ,american ships threw us into distress4 ,on the other hand1 the ,british navy1 which won the battles of the ,nile and of ,trafalgar1 not only made ,england as secure as a great mountain1 but also by thenceforth carefully maintaining its strength and keeping it on a level with the world's progress has safeguarded that country's interests and promoted its fortunes4 ,such lessons1 whether ancient or modern1 occidental or oriental1 though to some extent they are the outcome of political happenings1 must be regarded as in the main the natural result of whether the soldier remembers war in the day of peace4 ,we naval men who have survived the war must plan future developments and seek not to fall behind the progress of the time4 ,if1 keeping the instructions of our ,sovereign ever graven on our hearts1 we serve him earnestly and diligently1 and putting forth our full strength await what the hour may bring forth1 we shall then have discharged our great duty of perpetually guarding our country4 ,,footnote3 #df ,address at the dispersal of the squadron at the close of the ,russo-,japanese war4 ,,the ,,minute ,,man ,,george ,,william ,,curtis ,citizens of a great1 free1 and prosperous country1 we come hither to honor the men1 our fathers1 who on this spot struck the first blow in the contest which made our country independent4 ,here1 beneath the hills they trod1 by the peaceful river on whose shores they dwelt1 amidst the fields that they sowed and reaped1 we come to tell their story1 to try ourselves by their lofty standard1 to know if we are their worthy children2 and1 standing reverently where they stood and fought and died1 to swear before ,god and each other1 that government of the people1 by the people1 for the people1 shall not perish from the earth4 ,the minute man of the ,revolution6 ,and who was he8 ,he was the husband and father1 who left the plough in the furrow1 the hammer on the bench1 and1 kissing his wife and children1 marched to die or to be free6 ,he was the old1 the middle-aged1 the young4 ,he was ,captain ,miles1 of ,acton1 who reproved his men for jesting on the march6 ,he was ,deacon ,josiah ,haines1 of ,sudbury1 eighty years old1 who marched with his company to ,south ,bridge1 at ,concord1 then joined in that hot pursuit to ,lexington1 and fell as gloriously as ,warren at ,bunker ,hill4 ,he was ,james ,hayward1 of ,acton1 twenty-two years old1 foremost in that deadly race from ,charlestown to ,concord1 who raised his piece at the same moment with a ,british soldier1 each exclaiming1 ,you are a dead man6 ,the ,briton dropped1 shot through the heart4 ,hayward fell mortally wounded4 ,father1 said he1 ,i started with forty balls2 ,i have three left4 ,i never did such a day's work before4 ,tell mother not to mourn too much2 and tell her whom ,i love more than my mother that ,i am not sorry ,i turned out4 ,the last living link with the ,revolution has long been broken2 and we who stand here to-day have a sympathy with the men at the old ,north ,bridge1 which those who preceded us here at earlier celebrations could not know4 ,with them war was a name and a tradition4 ,when they assembled to celebrate this day1 they saw a little group of tottering forms1 whose pride was that1 before living memory1 they had been minute men of ,american ,independence4 ,but with us1 how changed6 ,war is no longer a tradition1 half romantic and obscure4 ,it has ravaged how many of our homes1 it has wrung how many of the hearts before me8 ,north and ,south1 we know the pang4 ,we do not count around us a few feeble veterans of the contest1 but we are girt with a cloud of witnesses4 ,behold them here to-day1 sharing in these pious and peaceful rites1 the honored citizens whose glory it is that they were minute men of ,american liberty and union6 ,these men of to-day interpret to us1 with resistless eloquence1 the men and the times we commemorate4 ,now1 if never before1 we understand the ,revolution4 ,now1 we know the secrets of those old hearts and homes4 ,no royal governor sits in yon stately capitol2 no hostile fleet for many a year has vexed the waters of our coast2 nor is any army but our own ever likely to tread our soil4 ,not such are our enemies to-day4 ,they do not come proudly stepping to the drum-beat1 with bayonets flashing in the morning sun4 ,but wherever party spirit shall strain the ancient guarantees of freedom1 or bigotry and ignorance of caste shall strike at equal rights1 or corruption shall poison the very springs of national life1 there1 minute men of liberty1 are your ,lexington ,green and ,concord ,bridge6 ,and1 as you love your country and your kind1 and would have your children rise up and call you blessed1 spare not the enemy6 ,over the hills1 out of the earth1 down from the clouds1 pour in resistless might6 ,fire from every rock and tree1 from door and window1 from hearth-stone and chamber2 hang upon his flank and rear from morn to sunset1 and so through a land blazing with holy indignation1 hurl the hordes of ignorance and corruption and injustice back1 back in utter defeat and ruin4 ,a ,,more ,,perfect ,,union#dg ,,george ,,william ,,curtis ,upon this field consecrated by ,american valor we meet to consecrate ourselves to ,american union4 ,in this hallowed ground lie buried1 not only brave soldiers of the blue and the gray1 but the passions of war1 the jealousies of sections1 and the bitter root of all our national differences1 human slavery4 ,here long and angry controversies of political dogma1 of material interest1 and of local pride and tradition1 came to their decisive struggle4 ,as the fate of ,christendom was determined at ,tours1 that of ,american ,independence at ,saratoga1 and that of modern ,europe at ,waterloo1 the destiny of the ,american ,union was decided at ,gettysburg4 ,a hundred other famous fields there are of the same ,american bravery in the same tremendous strife2 fields whose proud and terrible tale history and song will never tire of telling4 ,but it is here that the struggle touched its highest point4 ,here broke the fiery crest of that invading wave of war4 ,this is one of the historic fields of the world1 and to us ,americans no other has an interest so profound4 ,marathon and ,arbela1 ,worcester and ,valmy1 even our own ,bunker ,hill and ,saratoga and ,yorktown1 fields of undying fame1 have not for us a significance so vital and so beneficent as this field of ,gettysburg4 ,around its chief and central interest gather associations of felicitous significance4 ,like the ,house of ,delegates in ,williamsburg1 where ,patrick ,henry roused ,virginia to resistance2 like ,faneuil ,hall in ,boston1 where ,samuel ,adams lifted ,new ,england to independence2 like ,carpenter's ,hall in ,philadelphia1 where the ,continental ,congress assembled1 this field is invested with the undying charm of famous words fitly spoken4 ,while yet the echoes of the battle might have seemed to linger in the awed and grieving air1 stood the sad and patient and devoted man1 whose burden was greater than that of any man of his generation1 and as greatly borne as any solemn responsibility in human history4 ,upon this field he spoke the few simple words which enshrine the significance of the great controversy and which have become a part of this historic scene1 to endure with the memory of ,gettysburg1 and to touch the heart and exalt the hope of every ,american from the gulf to the lakes and from ocean to ocean1 so long as this valley shall smile with spring and glow with autumn1 and day and night and seed time and harvest shall not fail4 ,to-day his prophetic vision is fulfilled4 ,the murmur of these hosts of peace encamped upon this field of war1 this universal voice of friendly greeting and congratulation1 these cheers of the gray echoing the cheers of the blue1 what are they but the answering music of those chords of memory2 the swelling chorus of the ,union responding to the better angels of our nature8 ,if there be joy in ,heaven this day1 it is in the heart of ,abraham ,lincoln as he looks down upon this field of ,gettysburg4 ,but that the glory of this day1 and of ,america1 and of human nature1 may be full1 it is the veterans and survivors of the armies whose tremendous conflict interpreted the ,constitution1 who to-day1 here upon the field of battle and upon its twenty-fifth anniversary1 clasp friendly hands of sympathy to salute a common victory4 ,this is a spectacle without precedent in history4 ,no field of the cloth of gold1 or of the grounded arms1 no splendid scene of the royal adjustment of conquests1 the diplomatic settlement of treaties1 or the papal incitement of crusades1 rivals in moral grandeur and significance this simple pageant4 ,the sun of ,gettysburg rose on the #ast of ,july and saw the army of the gray already advancing in line of battle2 the army of the blue still hastening eagerly forward and converging to this point4 ,the glory of midsummer filled this landscape as if nature had arrayed a fitting scene for a transcendent event4 ,once more the unquailing lines so long arrayed against each other stood face to face4 ,once more the inexpressible emotion mingled of yearning memory1 of fond affection1 of dread foreboding1 of high hope1 of patriotic enthusiasm and of stern resolve1 swept for a moment over thousands of brave hearts1 and the next instant the overwhelming storm of battle burst4 ,for three long1 proud1 immortal days it raged and swayed1 the earth trembling1 the air quivering1 the sky obscured2 with shouting charge1 and rattling volley1 the thundering cannonade piling the ground with mangled and bleeding blue and gray1 the old1 the young1 but always and everywhere the devoted and the brave4 ,doubtful the battle hung and paused4 ,then a formidable bolt of war was forged on yonder wooded height and launched with withering blasts and roar of fire against the foe4 ,it was a living bolt and sped as if resistless4 ,it reached and touched the flaming line of the embattled blue4 ,it pierced the line4 ,for one brief moment in the sharp agony of mortal strife it held its own4 ,it was the supreme moment of the peril of the ,union4 ,it was the heroic crisis of the war4 ,but the fiery force was spent4 ,in one last1 wild1 tumultuous struggle brave men dashed headlong against men as brave1 and the next moment that awful bolt of daring courage was melted in the fervent heat of an equal valor1 and the battle of ,gettysburg was fought4 ,if the rising sun of the ,fourth of ,july1 #ahfc1 looked upon a sad and unwonted scene1 a desolated battlefield1 upon which the combatants upon either side had been ,american citizens1 yet those combatants could they have seen aright would have hailed that day as more glorious than ever before4 ,for as the children of ,israel beheld ,moses descending amid the clouds and thunder of the sacred mount bearing the divinely illuminated law1 so from that smoking and blood-drenched field on which all hope of future union might seem to have perished utterly1 they would have seen a more perfect union rising1 with the constitution at last immutably interpreted1 and they would have heard1 before they were uttered by human lips1 the words of which ,gettysburg is the immortal pledge to mankind1 government of the people1 by the people1 for the people1 shall not perish from the earth4 ,,footnote3 #dg ,delivered at ,gettysburg1 ,july #c1 #ahhh4 ,the occasion was a reunion of the ,blue and the ,gray on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the great battle4 ,,napoleon ,,thomas ,,corwin ,napoleon thought ,france was too small1 that ,europe should bow down to him4 ,but as soon as this idea took possession of his soul he became powerless1 while he meditated the subjugation of ,russia4 ,he who holds the winds in his power1 gathered the snows from the north and blew them upon his six hundred thousand men4 ,they fled1 they froze1 they perished4 ,and now the mighty ,napoleon1 who had resolved on universal dominion1 is summoned to answer for the violation of that ancient law1 ,thou shalt not covet anything which is thy neighbor's4 ,and how is the mighty fallen6 ,he beneath whose proud footstep ,europe trembled1 he is now an exile at ,elba1 and now1 finally a prisoner on the rock of ,st4 ,helena1 and there on a barren island1 in an unfrequented sea1 in the crater of an extinguished volcano1 there is the death-bed of the mighty conqueror4 ,and all his annexations have come to that6 ,his last hour has now come1 and he1 the man of destiny1 he who had rocked the world as in the throes of an earthquake1 is now powerless--even as a beggar1 so he died4 ,on the wings of a tempest1 that raged with unwonted fury1 up to the throne of the only power that controlled him while he lived1 went the fiery soul of that wonderful warrior1 another witness to the existence of that eternal decree1 that they who do not rule in righteousness shall perish from the earth4 ,,napoleon#dh ,,robert ,g4 ,,ingersoll ,a little while ago1 ,i stood by the grave of the old ,napoleon1 a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold1 fit almost for a dead deity1 and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble1 where rest at last the ashes of that restless man4 ,i leaned over the balustrade and thought about the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world4 ,i saw him walking upon the banks of the ,seine1 contemplating suicide4 ,i saw him at ,toulon4 ,i saw him putting down the mob in the streets of ,paris4 ,i saw him at the head of the army of ,italy4 ,i saw him crossing the bridge of ,lodi with the tricolor in his hand4 ,i saw him in ,egypt in the shadows of the ,pyramids4 ,i saw him conquer the ,alps and mingle the eagles of ,france with the eagles of the crags4 ,i saw him at ,marengo1 at ,ulm and ,austerlitz4 ,i saw him in ,russia1 where the infantry of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blast scattered his legions like winter's withered leaves4 ,i saw him at ,leipsic in defeat and disaster1 driven by a million bayonets back upon ,paris--clutched like a wild beast--banished to ,elba4 ,i saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius4 ,i saw him upon the frightful field of ,waterloo1 where ,chance and ,fate combined to wreck the fortunes of their former king4 ,and ,i saw him at ,st4 ,helena1 with his hands crossed behind him1 gazing out upon the sad and solemn sea4 ,i thought of the orphans and widows he had made1 of the tears that had been shed for his glory1 and of the only woman who ever loved him1 pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition4 ,and ,i said1 ,i would rather have been a ,french peasant and worn wooden shoes4 ,i would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door1 and the grapes growing purple in the amorous kisses of the autumn sun4 ,i would rather have been that poor peasant1 with my loving wife by my side1 knitting as the day died out of the sky1 with my children upon my knees and their arms about me4 ,i would rather have been that man1 and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust1 than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder1 known as ,napoleon the ,great4 ,,footnote3 #dh ,by permission of ,c4 ,p4 ,farrell1 publisher4 ,,national ,,control ,,of ,,corporations#di ,,theodore ,,roosevelt ,when this government was founded there were no great individual or corporate fortunes1 and commerce and industry were being carried on very much as they had been carried on in the days when ,nineveh and ,babylon stood in the ,mesopotamian ,valley4 ,sails1 oars1 wheels--those were the instruments of commerce4 ,the pack train1 the wagon train1 the row boat1 the sailing craft--those were the methods of commerce4 ,everything has been revolutionized in the business world since then1 and the progress of civilization from being a dribble has become a torrent4 ,there was no particular need at that time of bothering as to whether the nation or the state had control of corporations4 ,they were easy to control4 ,now1 however1 the exact reverse is the case4 ,and remember when ,i say corporations ,i do not mean merely trusts1 technically so-called1 merely combinations of corporations1 or corporations under certain peculiar conditions4 ,for instance1 some time ago the ,attorney ,general took action against a certain trust4 ,there was considerable discussion as to whether the trust aimed at would not seek to get out from under the law by becoming a single corporation4 ,now ,i want laws that will enable us to deal with any evil no matter what shape it takes4 ,i want to see the government able to get at it definitely1 so that the action of the government cannot be evaded by any turning within or without federal or state statutes4 ,at present we have really no efficient control over a big corporation which does business in more than one state4 ,frequently the corporation has nothing whatever to do with the state in which it is incorporated except to get incorporated2 and all its business may be done in entirely different communities--communities which may object very much to the methods of incorporation in the state named4 ,i do not believe that you can get any action by any state1 ,i do not believe it practicable to get action by all the states that will give us satisfactory control of the trusts1 of big corporations2 and the result is at present that we have a great1 powerful1 artificial creation which has no creator to which it is responsible4 ,the creator creates it and then it goes and operates somewhere else1 and there is no interest on the part of the creator to deal with it4 ,it does not do anything where the creator has power2 it operates entirely outside of the creator's jurisdiction4 ,it is1 of course1 a mere truism to say that the corporation is the creature of the state1 that the state is sovereign4 ,there should be a real and not a nominal sovereign1 some one sovereign to which the corporation shall be really and not nominally responsible4 ,at present if we pass laws nobody can tell whether they will amount to anything4 ,that has two bad effects4 ,in the first place1 the corporation becomes indifferent to the lawmaking body2 and in the next place1 the lawmaking body gets into that most pernicious custom of passing a law not with reference to what will be done under it1 but with reference to its effects upon the opinions of the voters4 ,that is a bad thing4 ,when any body of lawmakers passes a law1 not simply with reference to whether that law will do good or ill1 but with the knowledge that not much will come of it1 and yet that perhaps the people as a whole will like to see it on the statute books--it does not speak well for the lawmakers1 and it does not speak well for the people either4 ,what ,i hope to see is power given to the national legislature which shall make the control real4 ,it would be an excellent thing if you could have all the states act on somewhat similar lines so that you would make it unnecessary for the national government to act2 but all of you know perfectly well that the states will not act on similar lines4 ,no advance whatever has been made in the direction of intelligent dealing by the states as a collective body with those great corporations4 ,i am not advocating anything very revolutionary4 ,i am advocating action to prevent anything revolutionary4 ,now if we can get adequate control by the nation of these great corporations1 then we can pass legislation which will give us the power of regulation and supervision over them4 ,if the nation had that power1 ,i should advocate as strenuously as ,i know how that the power should be exercised with extreme caution and self-restraint4 ,,footnote3 #di ,from a speech delivered at ,symphony ,hall1 ,boston1 ,august #be1 #aijb4 ,,the ,,negro ,,henry ,w4 ,,grady ,the love we feel for that race you cannot measure nor comprehend4 ,as ,i attest it here1 the spirit of my old black mammy from her home up there looks down to bless1 and through the tumult of this night steals the sweet music of her croonings as thirty years ago she held me in her black arms and led me smiling into sleep4 ,this scene vanishes as ,i speak1 and ,i catch a vision of an old ,southern home1 with its lofty pillars1 and its white pigeons fluttering down through the golden air4 ,i see women with strained and anxious faces1 and children alert yet helpless4 ,i see night come down with its dangers and its apprehensions1 and in a big homely room ,i feel on my tired head the touch of loving hands1 and ,i thank ,god that she is safe in her sanctuary1 because her slaves1 sentinel in the silent cabin or on guard at her chamber door1 put a black man's loyalty between her and danger4 ,i catch another vision4 ,the crisis of battle1 a soldier struck1 staggering1 fallen4 ,i see a slave1 scuffling through the smoke1 winding his black arms about the fallen form1 reckless of the hurtling death--bending his trusty face to catch the words that tremble on the stricken lips4 ,i see him by the weary bedside1 ministering with uncomplaining patience1 praying with all his humble heart that ,god will lift his master up1 until death comes in mercy and in honor to still the soldier's agony and seal the soldier's life4 ,i see him by the open grave1 mute1 motionless1 uncovered1 suffering for the death of him who in life fought against his freedom4 ,i see him when the mound is heaped and the great drama of his life is closed1 turn away and with downcast eyes and uncertain step start out into new and strange fields1 faltering1 struggling1 but moving on1 until his shambling figure is lost in the light of this better and brighter day4 ,and out into this new world--strange to me as to him1 dazzling1 bewildering both--,i follow6 ,and may ,god forget my people when they forget these4 ,,new ,,england ,,josiah ,,quincy ,the great comprehensive truths1 written in letters of living light on every page of our history1--the language addressed by every past age of ,new ,england to all future ages1 is this3 ,human happiness has no perfect security but freedom2 freedom1 none but virtue2 virtue1 none but knowledge2 and neither freedom1 nor virtue1 nor knowledge1 has any vigor or immortal hope1 except in the principles of the ,christian faith1 and in the sanctions of the ,christian religion4 ,men of ,massachusetts6 citizens of ,boston6 descendants of the early immigrants6 consider your blessings2 consider your duties4 ,you have an inheritance acquired by the labors and sufferings of six successive generations of ancestors4 ,they founded the fabric of your prosperity in a severe and masculine morality1 having intelligence for its cement1 and religion for its groundwork4 ,continue to build on the same foundation1 and by the same principles let the extending temple of your country's freedom rise in the spirit of ancient times1 in proportions of intellectual and moral architecture1--just1 simple1 and sublime4 ,,the ,,new ,,south ,,henry ,w4 ,,grady ,there was a ,south of slavery and secession--that ,south is dead4 ,there is a ,south of union and freedom--that ,south1 thank ,god1 is living1 breathing1 growing every hour4 ,these words1 delivered from the immortal lips of ,benjamin ,h4 ,hill1 at ,tammany ,hall1 in #ahff1 true then and true now1 ,i shall make my text to-night4 ,mr4 ,president and ,gentlemen3 ,let me express to you my appreciation of the kindness by which ,i am permitted to address you4 ,i make this abrupt acknowledgment advisedly1 for ,i feel that if1 when ,i raise my provincial voice in this ancient and august presence1 ,i could find courage for no more than the opening sentence1 it would be well if in that sentence ,i had met in a rough sense my obligation as a guest1 and had perished1 so to speak1 with courtesy on my lips and grace in my heart4 ,permitted1 through your kindness1 to catch my second wind1 let me say that ,i appreciate the significance of being the first ,southerner to speak at this board1 which bears the substance1 if it surpasses the semblance1 of original ,new ,england hospitality--and honors the sentiment that in turn honors you1 but in which my personality is lost1 and the compliment to my people made plain4 ,my friends1 ,dr4 ,talmage has told you that the typical ,american has yet to come4 ,let me tell you that he has already come4 ,great types1 like valuable plants1 are slow to flower and fruit4 ,but from the union of the colonists1 ,puritans and ,cavaliers1 from the straightening of their purposes and the crossing of their blood1 slow perfecting through a century1 came he who stands as the first typical ,american1 the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness1 all the majesty and grace of this republic--,abraham ,lincoln4 ,he was the sum of ,puritan and ,cavalier1 for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both1 and in the depths of his great soul the faults of both were lost4 ,he was greater than ,puritan1 greater than ,cavalier1 in that he was ,american1 and that in his honest form were first gathered the vast and thrilling forces of his ideal government--charging it with such tremendous meaning and elevating it above human suffering that martyrdom1 though infamously aimed1 came as a fitting crown to a life consecrated from the cradle to human liberty4 ,let us1 each cherishing the traditions and honoring his fathers1 build with reverent hands to the type of this simple but sublime life1 in which all types are honored1 and in our common glory as ,americans there will be plenty and to spare for your forefathers and for mine4 ,dr4 ,talmage has drawn for you1 with a master's hand1 the picture of your returning armies4 ,he has told you how1 in the pomp and circumstance of war1 they came back to you1 marching with proud and victorious tread1 reading their glory in a nation's eyes6 ,will you bear with me while ,i tell you of another army that sought its home at the close of the late war--an army that marched home in defeat and not in victory--in pathos and not in splendor1 but in glory that equaled yours1 and to hearts as loving as ever welcomed heroes home6 ,let me picture to you the footsore ,confederate soldier1 as buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith1 he turned his face southward from ,appomattox in ,april1 #ahfe4 ,think of him as ragged1 half-starved1 heavy-hearted1 enfeebled by want and wounds4 ,having fought to exhaustion1 he surrenders his gun1 wrings the hands of his comrades in silence1 and lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot old ,virginia hills1 pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey4 ,what does he find--let me ask you who went to your homes eager to find1 in the welcome you had justly earned1 full payment for four years' sacrifice--what does he find when1 having followed the battle-stained cross against overwhelming odds1 dreading death not half so much as surrender1 he reaches the home he left so prosperous and beautiful8 ,he finds his house in ruins1 his farm devastated1 his slaves free1 his stock killed1 his barns empty1 his trade destroyed1 his money worthless1 his social system1 feudal in its magnificence1 swept away2 his people without law or legal status2 his comrades slain1 and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders4 ,crushed by defeat1 his very traditions are gone4 ,without money1 credit1 employment1 material1 or training2 and beside all this1 confronted with the gravest problem that ever met human intelligence--the establishing of a status for the vast body of his liberated slaves4 ,what does he do--this hero in gray with a heart of gold8 ,does he sit down in sullenness and despair8 ,not for a day4 ,surely ,god1 who had stripped him of his prosperity1 inspired him in his adversity4 ,as ruin was never before so overwhelming1 never was restoration swifter4 ,the soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow2 horses that had charged ,federal guns marched before the plow1 and fields that ran red with human blood in ,april were green with the harvest in ,june2 women reared in luxury cut up their dresses and made breeches for their husbands1 and1 with a patience and heroism that fit women always as a garment1 gave their hands to work4 ,there was little bitterness in all this4 ,cheerfulness and frankness prevailed4 ,never was nobler duty confided to human hands than the uplifting and upbuilding of the prostrate and bleeding ,south--misguided1 perhaps1 but beautiful in her suffering1 and honest1 brave and generous always4 ,in the record of her social1 industrial and political lustration we await with confidence the verdict of the world4 ,the new ,south is enamored of her new work4 ,her soul is stirred with the breath of a new life4 ,the light of a grander day is falling fair on her face4 ,she is thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity4 ,as she stands upright1 full-statured and equal among the people of the earth1 breathing the keen air and looking out upon the expanded horizon1 she understands that her emancipation came because through the inscrutable wisdom of ,god her honest purpose was crossed1 and her brave armies were beaten4 ,this is said in no spirit of time-serving or apology4 ,the ,south has nothing for which to apologize4 ,she believes that the late struggle between the ,states was war and not rebellion2 revolution and not conspiracy1 and that her convictions were as honest as yours4 ,i should be unjust to the dauntless spirit of the ,south and to my own convictions if ,i did not make this plain in this presence4 ,the ,south has nothing to take back4 ,in my native town of ,athens is a monument that crowns its central hill--a plain1 white shaft4 ,deep cut into its shining side is a name dear to me above the names of men--that of a brave and simple man who died in brave and simple faith4 ,not for all the glories of ,new ,england1 from ,plymouth ,rock all the way1 would ,i exchange the heritage he left me in his soldier's death4 ,to the foot of that shaft ,i shall send my children's children to reverence him who ennobled their name with his heroic blood4 ,but1 sir1 speaking from the shadow of that memory1 which ,i honor as ,i do nothing else on earth1 ,i say that the cause in which he suffered and for which he gave his life was adjudged by higher and fuller wisdom than his or mine1 and ,i am glad that the omniscient ,god held the balance of battle in ,his ,almighty hand and that human slavery was swept forever from ,american soil1 and the ,american ,union was saved from the wreck of war4 ,this message1 ,mr4 ,president1 comes to you from consecrated ground4 ,every foot of soil about the city in which ,i live is as sacred as a battle-ground of the republic4 ,every hill that invests it is hallowed to you by the blood of your brothers who died for your victory1 and doubly hallowed to us by the blood of those who died hopeless1 but undaunted1 in defeat--sacred soil to all of us--rich with memories that make us purer and stronger and better--silent but stanch witnesses in its red desolation of the matchless valor of ,american hearts and the deathless glory of ,american arms--speaking an eloquent witness in its white peace and prosperity to the indissoluble union of ,american ,states and the imperishable brotherhood of the ,american people4 ,now1 what answer has ,new ,england to this message8 ,will she permit the prejudice of war to remain in the hearts of the conquerors1 when it has died in the hearts of the conquered8 ,will she transmit this prejudice to the next generation1 that in their hearts which never felt the generous ardor of conflict it may perpetuate itself8 ,will she withhold1 save in strained courtesy1 the hand which straight from his soldier's heart ,grant offered to ,lee at ,appomattox8 ,will she make the vision of a restored and happy people1 which gathered above the couch of your dying captain1 filling his heart with grace1 touching his lips with praise1 and glorifying his path to the grave--will she make this vision1 on which the last sigh of his expiring soul breathed a benediction1 a cheat and delusion8 ,if she does1 the ,south1 never abject in asking for comradeship1 must accept with dignity its refusal2 but if she does not refuse to accept in frankness and sincerity this message of good will and friendship1 then will the prophecy of ,webster1 delivered in this very society forty years ago amid tremendous applause1 be verified in its fullest sense1 when he said3 ,standing hand to hand and clasping hands1 we should remain united as we have been for sixty years1 citizens of the same country1 members of the same government1 united1 all united now and united forever4 ,there have been difficulties1 contentions1 and controversies1 but ,i tell you that in my judgment1 ,those opened eyes1 ,which like the meteors of a troubled heaven1 ,all of one nature1 of one substance bred1 ,did lately meet in th' intestine shock1 ,shall now1 in mutual1 well beseeming ranks1 ,march all one way4 ,,daniel ,o',,connell#ej ,,wendell ,,phillips ,i do not think ,i exaggerate when ,i say that never since ,god made ,demosthenes has ,he made a man better fitted for a great work than ,he did ,daniel ,o',connell4 ,you may say that ,i am partial to my hero1 but ,john ,randolph of ,roanoke1 who hated an ,irishman almost as much as he did a ,yankee1 when he got to ,london and heard ,o',connell1 the old slaveholder threw up his hands and exclaimed1 ,this is the man1 those are the lips1 the most eloquent that speak ,english in my day1 and ,i think he was right4 ,webster could address a bench of judges2 ,everett could charm a college2 ,choate could delude a jury2 ,clay could magnetize a senate2 and ,tom ,corwin could hold the mob in his right hand1 but no one of these men could do more than this one thing4 ,the wonder about ,o',connell was that he could out-talk ,corwin1 he could charm a college better than ,everett1 and leave ,henry ,clay himself far behind in magnetizing a senate4 ,it has been my privilege to have heard all the great orators of ,america who have become singularly famed about the world's circumference4 ,i know what was the majesty of ,webster2 ,i know what it was to melt under the magnetism of ,henry ,clay2 ,i have seen eloquence in the iron logic of ,calhoun2 but ,o',connell was ,webster1 ,clay1 and ,calhoun in one4 ,before the courts1 logic2 at the bar of the senate1 unanswerable and dignified2 on the platform1 grace1 wit1 and pathos2 before the masses1 a whole man4 ,emerson says1 ,there is no true eloquence1 unless there is a man behind the speech4 ,daniel ,o',connell was listened to because all ,england and ,ireland knew that there was a man behind the speech1--one who could be neither bought1 bullied1 nor cheated4 ,when ,i was in ,naples1 ,i asked ,thomas ,fowell ,buxton1 ,is ,daniel ,o',connell an honest man8 ,as honest a man as ever breathed1 said he1 and then he told me the following story3 ,when1 in #ahcj1 ,o',connell first entered ,parliament1 the anti-slavery cause was so weak that it had only ,lushington and myself to speak for it1 and we agreed that when he spoke ,i should cheer him up1 and when ,i spoke he should cheer me1 and these were the only cheers we ever got4 ,o',connell came with one ,irish member to support him4 ,a large party of members 7,i think ,buxton said twenty-seven7 whom we called the ,west ,india interest1 the ,bristol party1 the slave party1 went to him1 saying1 ',o',connell1 at last you are in the ,house1 with one helper4 ,if you never go down to ,freemason's ,hall with ,buxton and ,brougham1 here are twenty-seven votes for you on every ,irish question4 ,if you work with those ,abolitionists1 count us always against you4' ,it was a terrible temptation4 ,how many a so-called statesman would have yielded6 ,o',connell said1 ',gentlemen1 ,god knows ,i speak for the saddest people the sun sees2 but may my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth1 if to help ,ireland--even ,ireland--,i forget the negro one single hour4' ,from that day1 said ,buxton1 ,lushington and ,i never went into the lobby that ,o',connell did not follow us4 ,and then1 besides his irreproachable character he had what is half the power of a popular orator1 he had a majestic presence4 ,a little ,o',connell would have been no ,o',connell at all4 ,in youth he had the brow of a ,jupiter and a stature of ,apollo4 ,sydney ,smith says of ,lord ,john ,russell's five feet1 when he went down to ,yorkshire after the ,reform ,bill had passed1 the stalwart hunters of ,yorkshire exclaimed1 ,what1 that little shrimp1 he carry the ,reform ,bill6 ,no1 no6 said ,smith1 he was a large man1 but the labors of the bill shrunk him4 ,i remember the story ,russell ,lowell tells of ,webster2 when a year or two before his death1 the ,whig party thought of dissolution1 ,webster came home from ,washington and went down to ,faneuil ,hall to protest1 and four thousand of his fellow ,whigs came out2 drawing himself up to his loftiest proportion1 his brow charged with thunder1 before the listening thousands1 he said1 ,gentlemen1 ,i am a ,whig1 a ,massachusetts ,whig1 a ,faneuil ,hall ,whig1 a revolutionary ,whig1 a constitutional ,whig4 ,if you break up the ,whig party1 sir1 where am ,i to go8 ,and says ,lowell1 ,we all held our breath1 thinking where he could go4 ,but if he had been five feet three1 we should have said1 ',who cares where you go8' ,well1 ,o',connell had all that2 and true nature seemed to be speaking all over him4 ,it would have been a pleasure even to look at him if he had not spoken at all1 and all you thought of was a greyhound4 ,and then he had what so few ,american speakers have1 a voice that sounded the gamut4 ,i heard him once in ,exeter ,hall say1 ,americans1 ,i send my voice careering across the ,atlantic like a thunderstorm1 to tell the slave-holders of the ,carolinas that ,god's thunderbolts are hot1 and to remind the negro that the dawn of his redemption is drawing near1 and ,i seemed to hear his voice reverberating and reechoing back to ,boston from the ,rocky ,mountains4 ,and then1 with the slightest possible flavor of an ,irish brogue1 he would tell a story that would make all ,exeter ,hall laugh1 and the next moment there would be tears in his voice1 like an old song1 and five thousand men would be in tears4 ,and all the while no effort--he seemed only breathing4 ,as effortless as woodland nooks ,send violets up and paint them blue4 ,,footnote3 #ej ,by permission of the publishers1 ,lothrop1 ,lee ,shepard ,co4 ,,the ,,open ,,door ,,patrick ,,henry ,i venture to prophesy there are those now living who will see this favored land among the most powerful on earth2 able1 sir1 to take care of herself1 without resorting to that policy which is always so dangerous1 though sometimes unavoidable1 of calling in foreign aid4 ,yes1 sir1 they will see her great in arts and in arms1 her golden harvests waving over fields of immeasurable extent1 her commerce permeating the most distant seas4 ,but1 sir1 you must have men1 you cannot get along without them4 ,those heavy forests of valuable timber under which your lands are groaning must be cleared away4 ,those vast riches which cover the face of your soil as well as those which lie hid in its bosom are to be developed and gathered only by the skill and enterprise of men4 ,your timber must be worked up into ships to transport the productions of the soil from which it has been cleared4 ,then you must have commercial men and commercial capital to take off your productions and find the best markets for them abroad4 ,your great want1 sir1 is the want of men1 and these you must have and will have speedily if you are wise4 ,do you ask how you are to get them8 ,open your doors and they will come in4 ,the population of the ,old ,world is full to overflowing4 ,that population is oppressed by the government under which they live4 ,they are already standing on tiptoe on their native shores and looking to your coasts with wistful and longing eyes4 ,they see here a land blessed with natural and political advantages1 which are not equaled by those of any other country upon earth1 a land upon which a gracious ,providence hath emptied the horn of abundance1 a land over which peace hath now stretched forth her white wings1 and where content and plenty lie down at every door4 ,sir1 they see something still more attractive than all this4 ,they see a land where ,liberty hath taken up her abode1 that ,liberty whom they had considered a fabled goddess existing only in the fancies of poets4 ,they see her here a real divinity1 her altars rising on every hand throughout these happy states1 her glories chanted by three millions of tongues and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence4 ,let but this1 our celestial goddess1 stretch forth her fair hands toward the people of the ,old ,world1 and you will see them pouring in from the ,north1 from the ,south1 from the ,east1 and from the ,west4 ,your wilderness will be cleared and settled1 your deserts will smile1 your ranks will be filled1 and you will soon be in a condition to defy the powers of any adversary4 ,,organization ,,of ,,the ,,world#ea ,,edwin ,d4 ,,mead ,to-day1 a century after ,washington1 we are called to a vision as inspiring and imperative as that which came to him as he rode up the ,mohawk1 and to a greater organizing work than that which he performed with such wisdom1 courage1 patience1 and success4 ,he was commanded to organize a nation2 we are commanded to organize the world4 ,he saw that the time had come when our power and our true interests must be measured on a continental scale2 we are warned that the time has come when we must conceive of our power and our true interests by the measure of mankind4 ,let no man think himself any longer in the first place as a ,new ,england man1 as a ,new ,yorker1 as a ,virginian1 but all of us ,americans1--that was the vision and message of ,washington2 and that insight and that law1 coming to petty1 prejudiced1 jealous1 and disordered states1 put an end to chaos and brought peace1 prosperity1 strength1 largeness of life1 and an ever broadening horizon4 ,let no man think of himself any longer in the first place as an ,american1 as an ,englishman1 a ,spaniard1 a ,frenchman1 a ,german1 a ,russian1 but all men in the first place citizens of the world1--that is the message which has been thundered in the ears of ,washington's ,america in these eventful and surprising years as it was never done before4 ,it took a civil war to teach ,gadsden's ,carolina and ,washington's ,virginia that the interests of the nation are above those of the state1 and that a state can only then be true to itself and its duty when it remembers that there is a lower and a higher1 and knows well what that lower and that higher are4 ,virginia and ,massachusetts have no less genuine and worthy pride as states1 they do not put to smaller or less vital use their sacred history and heritage1 their great sons are no less their sons1 because they bowed their heads to the baptism of a nation which must measure its powers and duties on a continental scale4 ,they know that national life into which they are incorporated as the nobler and more commanding life4 ,the nation is organized4 ,its logic was shaped finally in the fiery forge of war4 ,the nation is the largest thing we have yet got organized4 ,we must organize the world4 ,unending jealousies1 commercial clash1 friction of law1 paralysis of industry1 financial disorder1 the misdirection and miscarriage of good energy1 mischievous ignorance and prejudice1 incalculable waste1 chronic alarm1 and devastating wars are before us until we do it4 ,that is the lesson of the hour4 ,the relations and interdependence of the nations of ,christendom have become1 by the amazing advance of civilization in the century1 closer1 complexer1 and more imperious far than the relations of ,massachusetts1 ,pennsylvania1 and ,georgia1 when ,washington from the heights of the ,alleghanies looked into the ,west and thought of the continent4 ,yet ,france and ,germany1 ,england and ,russia1 ,america and ,spain1 in their great burrs of guns1 jealous of each other1 distrustful1 envious1 afraid1 go on in their separate1 incooeperant1 abortive ways1 keeping ,god's earth in chaos1 when a great wisdom and great virtue like ,washington's a hundred years ago would convert them into a family of nations1 into a federation and fraternity1 with a comprehensive law1 an efficient police1 and a purposeful economy4 ,in the ,parliament ,house at ,westminster1 among the scenes from ,english history painted on the walls1 the ,american is most stirred when he comes to the ,departure of the ,pilgrim ,fathers to found ,new ,england4 ,england--the ,england descended from the ,england which harried them out--will not let that scene go as a part of ,american history only1 but claims it now as one of the proudest scenes in her own history1 too4 ,so the ,american will no more view ,wyclif and ,shakespeare and ,cromwell and ,milton and ,gladstone as chiefly ,englishmen1 but as fellow-citizens1--as he views ,victor ,hugo and ,kant and ,tolstoi and ,mazzini4 ,the ,american is to be pitied who does not feel himself native to ,stratford and to ,london1 as to ,st4 ,louis or ,st4 ,paul1--native to ,leyden and to ,weimar and ,geneva4 ,each narrower circle only gains in richness and in sacredness and power as it expands into the larger2 each community and state and nation1 as it enters into a broader and completer organic life4 ,this is the divine message to the world4 ,let there be peace2 let there be order2 and1 that there may be1 let us know what manner of men we are4 ,peace on earth6--that was the first ,christmas greeting2 and the first ,christian argument upon the hill of ,mars1--,god hath made of one blood all nations of men4 ,,footnote3 #ea ,by permission of the author4 ,,the ,,permanency ,,of ,,empire#eb ,,wendell ,,phillips ,i appeal to ,history6 ,tell me1 thou reverend chronicler of the grave1 can all the wealth of a universal commerce1 can all the achievements of this world's wisdom1 secure to empire the permanency of its possessions8 ,alas6 ,troy thought so once2 yet the land of ,priam lives only in song6 ,thebes thought so once2 yet her hundred gates have crumbled1 and her very tombs are but as the dust they were vainly intended to commemorate4 ,so thought ,palmyra--where is she8 ,so thought the countries of ,demosthenes and the ,spartan2 yet ,leonidas is trampled by the timid slave1 and ,athens insulted by the servile1 mindless1 and enervate ,ottoman4 ,in his hurried march1 ,time has but looked at their imagined immortality2 and all its vanities1 from the palace to the tomb1 have1 with their ruins1 erased the very impression of his footsteps4 ,the days of their glory are as if they had never been2 and the island that was then a speck1 rude and neglected in the barren ocean1 now rivals the ubiquity of their commerce1 the glory of their arms1 the fame of their philosophy1 the eloquence of their senate1 and the inspiration of their bards4 ,who shall say1 then1 contemplating the past1 that ,england1 proud and potent as she appears1 may not1 one day1 be what ,athens is1 and the young ,america yet soar to be what ,athens was6 ,who shall say1 that1 when the ,european column shall have moldered1 and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins1 that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon to rule1 for its time1 sovereign of the ascendant6 ,,footnote3 #eb ,by permission of the publishers1 ,lothrop1 ,lee ,shepard ,co4 ,,the ,,pilgrims#ec ,,wendell ,,phillips ,when we undertake to criticise the ,pilgrims1 we ought first to ask ourselves the question1 where would they be to-day8 ,indeed1 to be as good as our fathers1 we must be better4 ,imitation is not discipleship4 ,thee and thou1 a stationary hat1 bad grammar and worse manners1 with an ugly coat1 are not ,george ,fox to-day4 ,you will recognize him in any one who rises from the lap of artificial life1 flings away its softness1 and startles you with the sight of a man4 ,neither do ,i acknowledge the right of ,plymouth to the whole rock4 ,no1 the rock underlies all ,america2 it only crops out here4 ,it has cropped out a great many times in our history4 ,you may recognize it always4 ,old ,putnam stood upon it at ,bunker ,hill1 when he said to the ,yankee boys3 ,don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes4 ,ingraham had it for ballast when he put his little sloop between two ,austrian frigates1 and threatened to blow them out of the water if they did not respect the flag of the ,united ,states in the case of ,martin ,koozta4 ,jefferson had it for a writing-desk when he drafted the ,declaration of ,independence and the ,statute of ,religious ,liberty for ,virginia4 ,lovejoy rested his musket upon it when they would not let him print his paper at ,alton1 and he said3 ,death or free speech6 ,ay6 it cropped out again4 ,garrison had it for an imposing-stone when he looked into the faces of seventeen millions of angry men1 and printed his sublime pledge1 ,i will not retreat a single inch1 and ,i will be heard4 ,if ,i were going to raise a monument to the ,pilgrims1 ,i know where ,i should place it4 ,i should place one corner-stone on the rock1 and the other on that level spot where fifty of the one hundred were buried before the winter was over2 but the remainder closed up shoulder to shoulder as firm1 unflinching1 hopeful as ever4 ,yes1 death rather than compromise of ,elizabeth4 ,i would write on their monument two mottoes3 ,one1 ,the ,right is more than our ,country6 and over the graves of the fifty3 ,death1 rather than ,compromise6 ,how true it is that the ,pilgrims originated no new truth6 ,how true it is1 also1 that it is not truth which agitates the world6 ,plato in the groves of the ,academy sounded on and on to the utmost depth of philosophy1 but ,athens was quiet4 ,calling around him the choicest minds of ,greece1 he pointed out the worthlessness of their altars and shame of public life1 but ,athens was quiet4 ,it was all speculation4 ,when ,socrates walked the streets of ,athens1 and1 questioning every-day life1 struck the altar till the faith of the passer-by faltered1 it came close to action2 and immediately they gave him hemlock1 for the city was turned upside down4 ,what the ,pilgrims gave the world was not thought1 but action4 ,men1 calling themselves thinkers1 had been creeping along the ,mediterranean1 from headland to headland1 in their timidity2 the ,pilgrims launched boldly out into the ,atlantic and trusted ,god4 ,that is the claim they have upon posterity4 ,it was action that made them what they were4 ,,footnote3 #ec ,by permission of the publishers1 ,lothrop1 ,lee ,shepard ,co4 ,,principles ,,of ,,the ,,founders#ed ,,edwin ,d4 ,,mead ,the old ,athenian life and our ,american life have much in common4 ,the resemblances between ,greek character and ours are marked4 ,those little ,greek democracies were more like our great one than almost any intervening states4 ,they offer us more pertinent examples and warnings than almost any other2 and they are of peculiar value for us in this1 that their history is rounded and complete1 and in it we can see the various conflicting principles and tendencies working themselves out to the end1 and so learn the full lesson of their logic4 ,pericles and ,demosthenes speak to ,america as well as to ,athens2 and we may well domesticate their admonitions here to-day and emphasize them to our people and ourselves as the words of fellow-citizens1 of ,washington and ,jefferson1 of ,sumner and ,emerson4 ,if the life and burning eloquence of ,demosthenes teach anything1 if the rounded period of history whose darkness he lights up teaches anything1 they teach the vitality and the imperious moment of the appeal1 in times of danger and temptation1 to the fathers and to the great past1 to the history and the teachings which in times of soberness have ever had the nation's highest honor4 ,no nation which is virtuous and vital will ever be slave to the past2 at the command of virtue and of vision it will snap precedent like a reed4 ,but every people of seriousness1 stability1 and character is a reverent people2 and when a people's reverence for its noble ancestors1 its sacred oracles and its venerable charters ceases to be sturdy and becomes sentimental1 much more when it ceases to exist at all1 then the hour of that people's decay and doom hast struck4 ,on this anniversary of the ,declaration of ,independence1 let us remember and vow never to forget that when it becomes general or popular among us1 as it has become common1 to flout at the ,declaration and its principles2 whenever the nation commits itself to courses which for the sake of consistency and respectability invite and compel its disparagement2 when our politics does not match our poetry and cannot be sung2 when ,washington and ,jefferson and ,sumner and ,lincoln cease to be quoted in our cabinet and at our helm1 then it is not well with us1 but ill1 and it is time to study the compass4 ,it is right to say1 and let us remember it on this sacred anniversary1 as an inspiration to duty1 that ,boston has been the center of the two great movements in our history1 the movement which gave us independence and the movement which purged the land of slavery4 ,if we could rear on ,boston ,common a monument upon which1 around the central form of ,samuel ,adams1 should be grouped the figures of ,james ,otis and ,john ,adams1 ,john ,hancock and ,joseph ,warren and their associates1 how much that monument would represent of what was most dynamic in the days which led up to the ,american ,revolution6 ,if we could rear beside it a monument upon which1 around the central figure of ,william ,lloyd ,garrison1 should stand ,wendell ,phillips1 ,parker and ,channing1 ,lowell and ,emerson1 ,sumner and ,andrew1 how much would be represented by that group of what was most potent in the anti-slavery struggle6 ,when the final history is written of the great social and industrial revolution into which we have already far advanced1 and which will continue until there exists throughout the republic an industrial equality as great as the political equality which we now enjoy or claim to enjoy1 it will be seen that here1 too1 ,boston has done her conspicuous part4 ,and when we survey the movement in behalf of the overthrow of war1 in behalf of the peace of nations and the organization of the world1 the preeminent task of our own time1 we shall find that in this great movement ,boston has led ,america2 ,i think it is not too much to claim that she has led the world4 ,as it was the glory of ,boston and of ,massachusetts1 proudest of cities and commonwealths1 strongest in patriotism1 to lead the country in the assertion of national sovereignty against every false emphasis of state rights1 in that long struggle which nearly cost the nation its life1 and which made it forever impossible for the ,american to say henceforth1 ,my state is first1 so it has been their glory to lead in the creation of the sentiment which meets the peculiar problem and menace of our own age1 enabling and inspiring men to harmonize their politics and their religion1 and know that their first allegiance is not to their nation but to humanity4 ,in this our ,commonwealth and city have but been true to the sublime pointings and ideals of the leaders of the ,revolution and the founders of the ,republic1 whom we celebrate to-day4 ,independence for the sake of independence1 a new nation for the sake of a new nation1--that was not the aim and motive of our fathers4 ,their dream was of a new nation of juster institutions and more equal laws1 a nation in which should dwell righteousness1 and which should mark a new era among men4 ,it should be especially an era of peace and brotherhood among the nations4 ,they hated war4 ,they believed that the time had come when the bloody dispensation of war1 with all its terrible wickedness and waste1 should cease2 and their ambition and high hope was that their new republic might lead in the new dispensation of peace and order and mutual regard4 ,,footnote3 #ed ,from an oration delivered before the city government and citizens of ,boston1 at ,faneuil ,hall1 ,july #d1 #aijc4 ,used by permission of the author4 ,,the ,,responsibility ,,of ,,war#ee ,,william ,e4 ,,channing ,nothing in the whole compass of legislation is so solemn as a declaration of war4 ,by nothing do a people incur such tremendous responsibility4 ,unless justly waged1 war involves a people in the guilt of murder4 ,the state which1 without the command of justice and ,god1 sends out fleets and armies to slaughter fellow-creatures1 must answer for the blood it sheds1 as truly as the assassin for the death of his victim4 ,oh1 how loudly does the voice of blood cry to heaven from the field of battle6 ,undoubtedly the men whose names have come down to us with the loudest shouts of ages stand now before the tribunal of eternal justice condemned as murderers2 and the victories which have been thought to encircle a nation with glory have fixed the same brand on multitudes in the sight of the final and ,almighty ,judge4 ,how essential is it to a nation's honor that it should engage in war with a full conviction of rectitude6 ,but there is one more condition of an honorable war4 ,a nation should engage in it with unfeigned sorrow4 ,it should beseech the throne of grace with earnest supplication that the dreadful office of destroying fellow-beings may not be imposed on it4 ,war concentrates all the varieties of human misery1 and a nation which can inflict these without sorrow contracts deeper infamy than from cowardice4 ,it is essentially barbarous1 and will be looked back upon by enlightened and ,christian ages with the horror with which we recall the atrocities of savage tribes4 ,let it be remembered that the calamities of war1 its slaughter1 famine1 and desolation1 instead of being confined to its criminal authors1 fall chiefly on multitudes who have had no share in provoking and no voice in proclaiming it2 and let not a nation talk of its honor which has no sympathy with woes1 which is steeled to the most terrible sufferings of humanity4 ,when recently the suggestion of war was thrown out to this people1 what reception did it meet8 ,was it viewed at once in the light in which a ,christian nation should immediately and most earnestly consider it8 ,was it received as a proposition to slaughter thousands of our fellow-creatures8 ,did we feel as if threatened with a calamity more fearful than earthquakes1 famine1 or pestilence8 ,the blight which might fall on our prosperity drew attention2 but the thought of devoting as a people1 our power and resources to the destruction of mankind1 of those whom a common nature1 whom reason1 conscience1 and ,christianity command us to love and save1--did this thrill us with horror8 ,did the solemn inquiry break forth through our land1 ,is the dreadful necessity indeed laid upon us to send abroad death and woe8 ,no4 ,there was little manifestation of the sensibility with which men and ,christians should look such an evil in the face4 ,as a people we are still seared and blinded to the crimes and miseries of war4 ,the principles of honor1 to which the barbarism and infatuation of dark ages gave birth1 prevail among us4 ,the generous1 merciful spirit of our religion is little understood4 ,the law of love preached from the cross and written in the blood of the ,saviour is trampled upon by public men4 ,the true dignity of man1 which consists in breathing and cherishing ,god's spirit of justice and philanthropy towards every human being1 is counted folly in comparison with that spirit of vindictiveness and self-aggrandizement which turns our earth into an image of the abodes of the damned4 ,how long will the friends of humanity1 of religion1 of ,christ1 silently1 passively1 uncomplainingly1 suffer the men of this world1 the ambitious1 vindictive1 and selfish1 to array them against their brethren in conflicts which they condemn and abhor8 ,shall not truth1 humanity1 and the mild and holy spirit of ,christianity find a voice to rebuke and awe the wickedness which precipitates nations into war1 and to startle and awaken nations to their fearful responsibility in taking arms against the children of their ,father in heaven8 ,prince of ,peace6 ,saviour of men6 speak in thine own voice of love1 power1 and fearful warning2 and redeem the world1 for which thou hast died1 from lawless and cruel passions1 from the spirit of rapine and murder1 from the powers of darkness and hell6 ,,footnote3 #ee ,from a speech delivered in ,boston1 ,january #be1 #ahce4 ,,scotland ,,edmund ,,flagg ,scotland6 ,there is magic in the sound4 ,statesmen1 scholars1 divines1 heroes1 poets6 ,do you want exemplars worthy of study and imitation8 ,where will you find them brighter than in ,scotland8 ,where can you find them purer than in ,scotland8 ,here1 no ,solon1 indulging imagination1 has pictured the perfectibility of man2 no ,lycurgus1 viewing him through the medium of human frailty alone1 has left for his government an iron code1 graven on eternal adamant2 no ,plato1 dreaming in the luxurious gardens of the ,academy1 has fancied what he should be1 and bequeathed a republic of love2 but sages1 knowing his weakness1 have appealed to his understanding1 cherished his virtues1 and chastised his vices4 ,friends of learning6 would you do homage at the shrine of literature8 would you visit her clearest founts8 ,go to ,scotland6 ,are you philosophers1 seeking to explore the hidden mysteries of mind8 ,bend to the genius of ,stewart4 ,student1 merchant1 or mechanic6 do you seek usefulness8 ,consult the pages of ,black and of ,adam ,smith4 ,grave barrister6 would you know the law1 the true1 sole expression of the people's will8 ,there stands the mighty ,mansfield4 ,do we look for high examples of noble daring8 ,where shall we find them brighter than in ,scotland8 ,from the bonny highland heather of her lofty summits1 to the modest lily of the vale1 not a flower but has blushed with patriot blood4 ,from the proud foaming crest of the ,solway1 to the calm1 polished breast of ,loch ,katrine1 not a river1 not a lake1 but has swelled with the life tide of freedom4 ,would you witness greatness8 ,contemplate a ,wallace and a ,bruce4 ,they fought not for honors1 for party1 for conquest2 'twas for their country and their country's good1 religion1 law1 and liberty4 ,,second ,,inaugural ,,address ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,fellow-countrymen3 ,at this second appearing to take the oath of the ,presidential office1 there is less occasion for extended address than there was at first4 ,then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper4 ,now at the expiration of four years1 during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation1 little that is new could be presented4 ,on the occasion corresponding to this1 four years ago1 all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war4 ,all dreaded it2 all sought to avoid it4 ,while the inaugural address was being delivered from this place1 devoted altogether to saving the ,union without war1 insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it with war1 seeking to dissolve the ,union and divide the effects by negotiation4 ,both parties deprecated war1 but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive1 and the other would accept war rather than let it perish1 and the war came4 ,one eighth of the whole population were colored slaves1 not distributed generally over the ,union1 but localized in the ,southern part of it4 ,these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest4 ,all knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war4 ,to strengthen1 perpetuate1 and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the ,union by war1 while the ,government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it4 ,neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained4 ,neither anticipated that the cause might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease4 ,each looked for an easier triumph1 and a result less fundamental and astounding4 ,both read the same ,bible and prayed to the same ,god1 and each invoked ,his aid against the other4 ,it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just ,god's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces2 but let us judge not1 that we be not judged4 ,the prayers of both could not be answered2 that of neither has been answered fully4 ,the ,almighty has ,his own purpose4 ,fondly do we hope1 fervently do we pray1 that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away4 ,yet1 if ,god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk1 and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword1 as was said three thousand years ago1 so still must it be said that the judgments of the ,lord are true and righteous altogether4 ,with malice toward none1 with charity for all1 with firmness in the right1 as ,god gives us to see the right1 let us strive on to finish the work we are in1 to bind up the nation's wounds1 to care for him who shall have borne the battle1 and for his widow and his orphans2 to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations4 ,,slavery ,,and ,,the ,,union#ef ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,we have made a good beginning here to-day4 ,while extremists may find some fault with our moderation they should recollect that the battle is not always to the strong nor the race to the swift4 ,in grave emergencies moderation is generally safer than radicalism2 and as this struggle is likely to be long and earnest we must not1 by our action1 repel any who are in sympathy with us1 but rather win all that we can to our standard4 ,our friends who urge an appeal to arms with so much force and eloquence should recollect that the government is arrayed against us and that the numbers are now arrayed against us as well and we should repel friends rather than gain them by anything savoring of revolutionary methods4 ,as it now stands we must appeal to the sober sense and patriotism of the people4 ,we will make converts day by day2 we will grow strong by calmness and moderation2 we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries4 ,and1 unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie1 we will be in the majority after a while1 and then the revolution which we will accomplish will be none the less radical from being the result of pacific measures4 ,the battle of freedom is to be fought out on principle4 ,slavery is a violation of eternal right4 ,we have temporized with it from the necessities of our condition2 but as sure as ,god reigns and school children read1 that foul lie can never be consecrated into ,god's hallowed truth6 ,one great trouble in the matter is that slavery is an insidious and crafty power1 and gains equally by open violence of the brutal as well as by sly management of the peaceful4 ,once let slavery get planted in a locality1 by ever so weak or doubtful a title1 and in ever so small numbers1 and it is like the ,canada thistle1 you can't root it out4 ,you yourself may detest slavery2 but your neighbor has five or six slaves1 and he is an excellent neighbor1 or your son has married his daughter1 and they beg you to help save their property1 and you vote against your interest and principles to accommodate a neighbor1 hoping that your vote will be on the losing side4 ,and others do the same2 and in those ways slavery gets a sure foothold4 ,and when that is done the whole mighty ,union--the force of the ,nation--is committed to its support4 ,it is a very strange thing1 and not solvable by any moral law that ,i know of1 that if a man loses his horses the whole country will turn out to help hang the thief2 but if a man a shade or two darker than ,i am is himself stolen the same crowd will hang one who aids in restoring him to liberty4 ,such are the inconsistencies of slavery1 where a horse is more sacred than a man2 and the essence of squatter or popular sovereignty--,i don't care how you call it--is that if one man chooses to make a slave of another no third man shall be allowed to object4 ,and if you can do this in free ,kansas1 and it is allowed to stand1 the next thing you will see is shiploads of negroes from ,africa at the wharf at ,charleston2 for one thing is as truly lawful as the other2 and these are the notions we have got to stamp out1 else they will stamp us out4 ,but we cannot be free men if this is1 by our national choice1 to be a land of slavery4 ,those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves2 and1 under the rule of a just ,god1 cannot long retain it4 ,the conclusion of all this is that we must restore the ,missouri ,compromise4 ,we must highly resolve that ,kansas must be free6 ,we must reinstate the birthday promise of the ,republic2 we must reaffirm the ,declaration of ,independence2 we must make good in essence as well as in form ,madison's avowal that the word slave ought not to appear in the ,constitution2 and we must even go further1 and decree that only local law1 and not that time-honored instrument1 shall shelter a slaveholder4 ,we must make this a land of liberty in fact1 as it is in name4 ,but in seeking to attain these results1 so indispensable if the liberty which is our pride and boast shall endure1 we will be loyal to the ,constitution and to the flag of our ,union1 and no matter what our grievance1 even though ,kansas shall come in as a slave ,state2 and no matter what theirs1 even if we shall restore the compromise1 we will say to the ,southern disunionists1 ,we won't go out of the ,union1 and you shan't6 ,but let us1 meanwhile1 appeal to the sense and patriotism of the people1 and not to their prejudices2 let us spread the floods of enthusiasm here aroused all over the vast prairies so suggestive of freedom4 ,there is both a power and a magic in popular opinion4 ,to that let us now appeal2 and while1 in all probability1 no resort to force will be needed1 our moderation and forbearance will stand us in good stead when1 if ever1 we must make an appeal to battle and to the ,god of hosts6 ,,footnote3 #ef ,from the celebrated last speech1 made at ,bloomington1 ,ill41 ,may #bi1 #ahef4 ,,subjugation ,,of ,,the ,,filipino#eg ,,george ,f4 ,,hoar ,the ,american people have got this one question to answer4 ,they may answer it now2 they can take ten years1 or twenty years1 or a generation1 or a century to think of it4 ,but it will not down4 ,they must answer it in the end3 ,can you lawfully buy with money or get by brute force of arms the right to hold in subjugation an unwilling people and to impose on them such constitution as you1 and not they1 think best for them8 ,the question will be answered soberly and deliberately and quietly as the ,american people are wont to answer great questions of duty4 ,it will be answered1 not in any turbulent assembly1 amid shouting and clapping of hands and stamping of feet4 ,it will be answered in the churches and in the schools and in the colleges1 it will be answered in fifteen million ,american homes1 and it will be answered as it has always been answered4 ,it will be answered right4 ,i have sometimes fancied that we might erect here in the capital of the country a column to ,american liberty which alone might rival in height the beautiful and simple shaft which we have erected to the fame of the father of the country4 ,i can fancy each generation bringing its inscription1 which should recite its own contribution to the great structure of which the column should be but the symbol4 ,the generation of the ,puritan and the ,pilgrim and the ,huguenot claims the place of honor at the base4 ,i brought the torch of freedom across the sea4 ,i cleared the forest4 ,i subdued the savage and the wild beast4 ,i laid in ,christian liberty and law the foundations of empire4 ,i left the seashore to penetrate the wilderness4 ,i planted schools and colleges and courts and churches4 ,i stood by the side of ,england on many a hard-fought field4 ,i helped humble the power of ,france4 ,i saw the lilies go down before the lion at ,louisburg and ,quebec4 ,i carried the cross of ,st4 ,george in triumph in ,martinique and ,havana4 ,then comes the generation of the revolutionary time4 ,i encountered the power of ,england4 ,i declared and won the independence of my country4 ,i placed that declaration on the eternal principles of justice and righteousness1 which all mankind have read1 and on which all mankind will one day stand4 ,i affirmed the dignity of human nature and the right of the people to govern themselves4 ,i created the ,supreme ,court and the ,senate4 ,for the first time in history ,i made the right of the people to govern themselves safe1 and established institutions for that end which will endure forever4 ,the next generation says1 ,i encountered ,england again4 ,i vindicated the right of an ,american ship to sail the seas the wide world over without molestation4 ,i made the ,american sailor as safe at the ends of the earth as my fathers had made the ,american farmer safe in his home4 ,i proclaimed the ,monroe ,doctrine in the face of the ,holy ,alliance1 under which sixteen republics have joined the family of nations4 ,i filled the western hemisphere with republics from the lakes to ,cape ,horn1 each controlling its own destiny in safety and in honor4 ,then comes the next generation3 ,i did the mighty deeds which in your younger years you saw and which your fathers told4 ,i saved the ,union4 ,i put down the rebellion4 ,i freed the slave4 ,i made of every slave a free man and of every free man a citizen and of every citizen a voter4 ,i paid the debt4 ,i brought in conciliation and peace instead of war4 ,i devised the homestead system4 ,i covered the prairie and the plain with happy homes and with mighty states4 ,i crossed the continent and joined together the seas with my great railroads4 ,i declared the manufacturing independence of ,america1 as my fathers affirmed its political independence4 ,i made my country the richest1 freest1 strongest1 happiest people on the face of the earth4 ,and now what have we to say8 ,are we to have a place in that honorable company8 ,must we engrave on that column1 ,we repealed the ,declaration of ,independence4 ,we changed the ,monroe doctrine from a doctrine of eternal righteousness and justice1 resting on the consent of the governed1 to a doctrine of brutal selfishness1 looking only to our own advantage4 ,we crushed the only republic in ,asia4 ,we made war on the only ,christian people in the ,east4 ,we converted a war of glory to a war of shame4 ,we vulgarized the ,american flag4 ,we introduced perfidy into the practice of war4 ,we inflicted torture on unarmed men to extort confession4 ,we established reconcentrado camps4 ,we devastated provinces4 ,we baffled the aspirations of a people for liberty8 ,no1 ,mr4 ,president1 never6 never6 ,other and better counsels will yet prevail4 ,the hours are long in the life of a great people4 ,the irrevocable step is not yet taken4 ,let us at least have this to say1 ,we1 too1 have kept the faith of the fathers4 ,we took ,cuba by the hand4 ,we delivered her from her age-long bondage4 ,we welcomed her to the family of nations4 ,we set mankind an example never beheld before of moderation in victory4 ,we led hesitating and halting ,europe to the deliverance of their beleaguered ambassadors in ,china4 ,we marched through a hostile country1 a country cruel and barbarous1 without anger or revenge4 ,we returned benefit for injury1 and pity for cruelty4 ,we made the name of ,america beloved in the ,east as in the ,west4 ,we kept faith with the ,filipino people4 ,we kept faith with our own destiny4 ,we kept our national honor unsullied4 ,the flag which we received without a rent we handed down without a stain6 ,,footnote3 #eg ,united ,states ,senate1 ,may #bb1 #aijb4 ,,sufferings ,,and ,,destiny ,,of ,,the ,,pilgrims ,,edward ,,everett ,methinks ,i see it now1 that one solitary1 adventurous vessel1 the ,mayflower of a forlorn hope1 freighted with the prospects of a future state1 and bound across the unknown sea4 ,i behold it pursuing1 with a thousand misgivings1 the uncertain1 the tedious voyage4 ,suns rise and set1 and weeks and months pass1 and winter surprises them on the deep1 but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore4 ,i see them now1 scantily supplied with provisions1 crowded almost to suffocation in their ill-stored prison1 delayed by calms1 pursuing a circuitous route2 and now driven in fury before the raging tempest1 on the high and giddy wave4 ,the awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging2 the laboring masts seem straining from their base2 the dismal sound of the pumps is heard2 the ship leaps1 as it were1 madly1 from billow to billow2 the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck1 and beats with deadening1 shivering weight against the staggered vessel4 ,i see them1 escaped from these perils1 pursuing their all but desperate undertaking1 and landed1 at last1 after a few months' passage1 on the ice-clad rocks of ,plymouth1--weak and weary from the voyage1 poorly armed1 scantily provisioned1 without shelter1 without means1 surrounded by hostile tribes4 ,shut now the volume of history and tell me1 on any principle of human probability1 what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers8 ,tell me1 man of military science1 in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of ,new ,england8 ,tell me1 politician1 how long did this shadow of a colony1 on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled1 languish on the distant coast8 ,student of history1 compare for me the baffled projects1 the deserted settlements1 the abandoned adventures1 of other times1 and find the parallel of this6 ,was it the winter's storm1 beating upon the houseless heads of women and children8 was it hard labor and spare meals8 was it disease8 was it the tomahawk8 was it the deep malady of a blighted hope1 a ruined enterprise1 and a broken heart1 aching1 in its last moments1 at the recollection of the loved and left1 beyond the sea8--was it some or all of these united1 that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate8 ,and is it possible that neither of these causes1 that not all combined1 were able to blast this bud of hope8 ,is it possible that from a beginning so feeble1 so frail1 so worthy1 not so much of admiration as of pity1 there has gone forth a progress so steady1 a growth so wonderful1 an expansion so ample1 a reality so important1 a promise1 yet to be fulfilled1 so glorious8 ,,to ,,arms ,,louis ,,kossuth ,our fatherland is in danger4 ,citizens1 to arms6 to arms6 ,unless the whole nation rise up as one man to defend itself all the noble blood already shed is in vain4 ,people of ,hungary1 will you die under the exterminating sword of the ,russians8 ,if not1 defend yourselves4 ,will you look on while the ,kossacks of the far north tread under foot the bodies of your fathers1 mothers1 wives and children8 ,if not1 defend yourselves4 ,will you see a part of your fellow-citizens sent to the wilds of ,siberia1 made to serve in the wars of tyrants1 or bleed under the murderous knout8 ,if not1 defend yourselves4 ,will you behold your villages in flames1 and your harvests destroyed8 ,will you die of hunger on the land which your sweat has made fertile8 ,if not1 defend yourselves4 ,,true ,,american ,,patriotism#eh ,,bourke ,,cockran ,the ,american patriot is the soldier of civilization4 ,one hundred years ago the republic was first born1 but the roots from which it sprung grew and flourished for centuries4 ,the beginning of republicanism is not of ,american origin nor of any one country or nation of the world4 ,the beginning of republicanism was not upon this soil but upon the soil trodden by the ,lord4 ,it was not first announced by the booming of the cannon and the pealing of the liberty bell1 but when the star of ,bethlehem shone over the place where the new-born babe was in the manger and the songs of the angels told of ,peace on earth1 good will toward men4 ,this right is the crowning glory of man's progress4 ,it is the natural attitude of ,christian civilization4 ,a government based upon the equality of all men before the law is based upon the principle of equality of all men in the sight of ,god4 ,democracy is ,christianity applied to civilization4 ,from the very moment the ,savior of mankind told his disciples to go forth and preach his word it became unavoidable that the triumphs of ,christianity would mean the destruction of every form of government based upon inequality of man4 ,the first champions of freedom were the apostles who preached the word of ,christ4 ,the advent of feudalism in ,europe seemed as if a dark night had set over the face of the world4 ,man had conquered territory by the sword and was forced to defend it by the torch4 ,in the face of that condition of civilization ,christianity proceeded to teach the doctrine that the weak and strong were equal in the sight of heaven4 ,columbus was the natural outcome of conditions which had been in course of preparation for years4 ,the ,old ,world1 with its prejudices and barbarism1 was unfit for the planting of the germ of freedom1 and so ,providence guided the bark of ,columbus to the shores of ,america4 ,here the tree of liberty was planted under circumstances which encouraged its growth and insured its life4 ,nowhere is the providence of ,god more visible4 ,here was the virgin soil to be conquered4 ,here were forests to be felled2 a strong arm was of more use in cutting down a tree than the lineage of a thousand years4 ,the value of the settler was not the blood which flowed in his veins1 but the power of his muscles and the strength of his will4 ,then the dignity of labor was raised to a pitch unknown to this world4 ,they did not come here to enrich themselves with gold4 ,they did not come here to plunder the soil and return to ,spain to spend the proceeds in riot4 ,they were men in whose hearts liberty never died4 ,they sought this continent that they might create liberty1 and they did it4 ,their labor was fruitful4 ,,footnote3 #eh ,auditorium1 ,chicago1 ,april #cj1 #ahid4 ,by permission of the author4 ,a ,,vision ,,of ,,war#ei ,,robert ,g4 ,,ingersoll ,the past rises before me like a dream4 ,again we are in the great struggle for national life4 ,we hear the sounds of preparation1 the music of boisterous drums1 the silver voices of heroic bugles4 ,we see thousands of assemblages1 and hear the appeals of orators4 ,we see the pale cheeks of women1 and the flushed faces of men2 and in those assemblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers4 ,we lose sight of them no more4 ,we are with them when they enlist in the great army of freedom4 ,we see them part with those they love4 ,some are walking for the last time in quiet1 woody places1 with the maidens they adore4 ,we hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever4 ,others are bending over cradles1 kissing babes that are asleep4 ,some are receiving the blessings of old men4 ,some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again and again1 and say nothing4 ,kisses and tears1 tears and kisses--divine mingling of agony and love6 ,and some are talking with wives1 and endeavoring with brave words1 spoken in the old tones1 to drive from their hearts the awful fear4 ,we see them part4 ,we see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms--standing in the sunlight sobbing4 ,at the turn of the road a hand waves2 she answers by holding high in her loving arms the child4 ,he is gone1 and forever4 ,we see them all as they march proudly away under the flaunting flags1 keeping time to the grand1 wild music of war2 marching down the streets of the great cities1 through the towns and across the prairies1 down to the fields of glory1 to do and to die for the eternal right4 ,we go with them1 one and all4 ,we are by their side on all the gory fields1 in all the hospitals of pain1 on all the weary marches4 ,we stand guard with them in the wild storm and under the quiet stars4 ,we are with them in ravines running with blood1 in the furrows of old fields4 ,we are with them between contending hosts1 unable to move1 wild with thirst1 the life ebbing slowly away among the withered leaves4 ,we see them pierced by balls and torn with shells1 in the trenches1 by forts1 and in the whirlwind of the charge1 where men become iron1 with nerves of steel4 ,we are with them in the prisons of hatred and famine2 but human speech can never tell what they endured4 ,we are at home when the news comes that they are dead4 ,we see the maiden in the shadow of her first sorrow4 ,we see the silvered head of the old man bowed with the last grief4 ,the past rises before us1 and we see four millions of human beings governed by the lash2 we see them bound hand and foot2 we hear the strokes of cruel whips2 we see the hounds tracking women through tangled swamps4 ,we see babes sold from the breasts of mothers4 ,cruelty unspeakable6 ,outrage infinite6 ,four million bodies in chains--four million souls in fetters4 ,all the sacred relations of wife1 mother1 father and child trampled beneath the brutal feet of might4 ,and all this was done under our own beautiful banner of the free4 ,the past rises before us4 ,we hear the roar and shriek of the bursting shell4 ,the broken fetters fall4 ,these heroes die4 ,we look4 ,instead of slaves we see men and women and children4 ,the wand of progress touches the auction-block1 the slave-pen1 the whipping-post1 and we see homes and firesides and schoolhouses and books1 and where all was want and crime and cruelty and fear1 we see the faces of the free4 ,these heroes are dead4 ,they died for liberty2 they died for us4 ,they are at rest4 ,they sleep in the land they made free1 under the flag they rendered stainless1 under the solemn pines1 the sad hemlocks1 the tearful willows1 and the embracing vines4 ,they sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds1 careless alike of sunshine or of storm1 each in the windowless palace of rest4 ,earth may run red with other wars2 they are at peace4 ,in the midst of battle1 in the roar of conflict1 they found the serenity of death4 ,i have one sentiment for the soldiers living and dead3 ,cheers for the living and tears for the dead4 ,,footnote3 #ei ,by permission of the publisher1 ,c4 ,p4 ,farrell4 ,,war ,,in ,,the ,,twentieth ,,century#fj ,,edwin ,d4 ,,mead ,it is a great mistake to think1 as many are apt to do when some terrible war overwhelms some part of the world1 that war is on the increase among men and that we are probably on the eve of a portentous new era of it4 ,the temptation to think so is strong when two or three such wars come at the same time1 waged by enlightened nations which we had fondly trusted had got beyond such wickedness and folly4 ,but there is no warrant for the belief4 ,there is seldom real warrant for any fear that the world generally is going backward1 although it would be stupid not to see that there come many days which are far behind many yesterdays in insight1 in ideals1 and in conduct4 ,the long view is the encouraging view1 the view of progress4 ,we have entered a new century4 ,as one looks back over the nineteenth century1 which has closed1 as one reads perhaps some brief historical survey of the century1 it is worth while to ask oneself whether one would rather live in #ahjj or in #aijj1 in the world pictured in the first pages of the book or that pictured in the last pages4 ,the serious man can give but one answer4 ,the ,england and ,france and ,germany and ,italy and ,spain of the end of the century were1 when every deduction has been made on particular points1 vastly more habitable1 better places to live in1 than the same countries at the beginning of the century4 ,the brilliant historian of the administration of ,jefferson paints a masterly picture of the life of our own people in #ahjj4 ,every aspect of the social and intellectual life of the time is treated with marvelous fullness of detail and in the most graphic and impressive way2 and there is an element of hope and buoyancy1 of prophecy and promise1 pervading the pages1 which is at once inspiring and sobering4 ,yes1 surely one would rather live in the ,united ,states at the beginning of the twentieth century than at the beginning of the nineteenth4 ,the century has been on the whole emphatically a period of progress4 ,the same was true of the century before1 and of the century before that4 ,what has been true concerning progress in general during the last few centuries has been especially true of progress out of the habit of war toward the habit of peace4 ,events at the close of the nineteenth century have been indeed deplorable2 they were also deplored--and this is the significant thing--more than such events were ever deplored before4 ,the body of protest against unnecessary and unrighteous wars becomes steadily larger1 bolder1 and more outspoken2 the public conscience is more troubled by them2 more and more men perceive their wastefulness and wrong1 and discern the more excellent way2 and to-morrow the total of protesting insight and morality shall be great enough to tip the balance and hold the tempted1 ruffling nation to self-restraint1 respect for others1 and respect for civilization4 ,there was much less war in ,christendom during the nineteenth century than during the eighteenth1 and there will be less during the twentieth century than during the nineteenth4 ,the steady and sure progress of the world is toward the supplanting of the ways of greed and violence among nations by the methods of reason1 legality1 and mutual regard4 ,as one travels over ,europe1 one is never far from some great battle-field4 ,in ,scotland one remembers how half a dozen centuries ago one clan was continually fighting with another1 this group of clans warring with that1 or all were leagued together against one ,edward or another advancing with his archers from beyond the ,tweed4 ,the ,english armies fighting at ,falkirk and ,bannockburn and ,halidon were straightway--they or their successors--in ,france fighting at ,crecy and ,poitiers and ,agincourt4 ,the wars between ,england and ,france were interminable2 and so were the wars between ,france and other nations4 ,there were civil wars and religious wars and wars of succession2 seven-years wars and thirty-years wars and hundred-years wars4 ,war was the regular vocation of nations1 the profession of arms the chief profession1 peace merely an occasional respite1 in no sense to be reckoned on or presumed to endure as the natural condition of things4 ,all this has been fundamentally changed4 ,europe bends under the burden of her great armies and multiplies her costly battleships1 and we say that it is wasteful and barbarous2 but the soldiers and ships are almost never used4 ,we grieve and blush at the shameful wars of subjugation in our own time2 but these wars were anachronisms1 sporadic survivals of courses common and universally approved three hundred years ago1 when men did not blush for them1 but not typical of the tendencies and civilization of the present age4 ,the true exponent of the world's best judgment and increasing purpose and policy1 as the twentieth century begins1 is not the warring in ,luzon and the ,transvaal1 but the ,hague ,tribunal4 ,for a century the states in the ,united ,states1 because we have had a ,supreme ,court1 have settled there1 and not by combat1 their boundary disputes and other quarrels1 graver often than many which have plunged ,european nations into war1 while most of us have not known even of the fact of litigation4 ,to-day1 because an ,international ,tribunal exists1 the ,venezuelan imbroglio is referred to it1 which else might have gone on to the dread arbitrament of arms4 ,such references will multiply2 the legal way instead of the fighting way will become easy1 will become common1 will become instinctive1 will become universal2 war will hasten after the duel1 to be loathed and to be laughed at1 and to cease to be at all2 the cannon will follow the rack to the chamber of horrors2 and nations when they disagree will not go into battle1 but into court4 ,this is the sure end of the process which the broad survey of history reveals4 ,the critical student of war becomes the sure prophet of peace4 ,,footnote3 #fj ,by permission of the author4 ,,george ,,washington#fa ,,charles ,,phillips ,it matters very little what immediate spot may be the birth-place of such a man as ,washington4 ,no people can claim1 no country can appropriate him2 the boon of providence to the human race1 his fame is eternity and his residence creation4 ,though it was the defeat of our arms and the disgrace of our policy1 ,i almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin4 ,if the heavens thundered and the earth rocked1 yet when the storm passed how pure was the climate that it cleared2 how bright in the brow of the firmament was the planet which it revealed to us6 ,in the production of ,washington1 it does really appear as if nature were endeavoring to improve upon herself1 and that all the virtues of the ancient world were but so many studies preparatory to the patriot of the new4 ,individual instances no doubt there were2 splendid exemplifications of some single qualification4 ,caesar was merciful1 ,scipio was continent1 ,hannibal was patient2 but it was reserved for ,washington to blend them all in one1 and like the lovely chef d'oeuvre of the ,grecian artist1 to exhibit in one glow of associated beauty the pride of every model and the perfection of every master4 ,as a general he marshaled the peasant into a veteran1 and supplied by discipline the absence of experience2 as a statesman he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage2 and such was the wisdom of his views and the philosophy of his counsels that to the soldier and the statesman he almost added the character of the sage4 ,a conqueror1 he was untainted with the crime of blood2 a revolutionist1 he was free from any stain of treason2 for aggression commenced the contest1 and his country called him to the command4 ,liberty unsheathed his sword1 necessity stained it1 victory returned it4 ,if he had paused here1 history might have doubted what station to assign him1 whether at the head of her citizens or her soldiers1 her heroes or her patriots4 ,but the last glorious act crowns his career and banishes all hesitation4 ,who1 like ,washington1 after having emancipated a hemisphere1 resigned his crown and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created8 ,how shall we rank thee upon glory's page1 ,thou more than soldier1 and just less than sage8 ,all thou hast been reflects less fame on thee1 ,far less than all thou hast forborne to be6 ,such1 sir1 is the testimony of one not to be accused of partiality in his estimate of ,america4 ,happy1 proud ,america6 the lightnings of heaven yielded to your philosophy6 ,the temptations of earth could not seduce your patriotism6 ,i have the honor1 sir1 of proposing to you as a toast1 ,the immortal memory of ,george ,washington4 ,,footnote3 #fa ,delivered at a dinner on ,dinas ,island1 ,lake ,killarney1 ,ireland1 given in honor of ,mr4 ,o4 ,h4 ,payne 7afterward ,senator ,payne7 of ,ohio4 ,,iv ,,gay1 ,,humorous1 ,,comic ,a ,,boy',s ,,mother#fb ,,james ,,whitcomb ,,riley ,my mother she's so good to me ,ef ,i was good as ,i could be1 ,i couldn't be as good--no1 sir6 ,can't any boy be good as her6 ,she loves me when ,i'm glad er mad2 ,she loves me when ,i'm good er bad2 ,an' what's a funniest thing1 she says ,she loves me when she punishes4 ,i don't like her to punish me2 ,that don't hurt1 but it hurts to see ,her cryin'--nen ,i cry2 an' nen ,we both cry--an' be good again4 ,she loves me when she cuts and sews ,my little cloak and ,sunday clothes2 ,an' when my pa comes home to tea1 ,she loves him most as much as me4 ,she laughs an' tells him all ,i said4 ,an' grabs me up an' pats my head2 ,an' ,i hug her1 an' ,i hug my pa1 ,an' love him purt' nigh much es ma4 ,,footnote3 #fb ,used by special permission of the publishers1 ,the ,bobbs-,merrill ,company4 ,from ,rhymes of ,childhood1 copyright1 #aijj4 ,,almost ,,beyond ,,endurance#fc ,,james ,,whitcomb ,,riley ,i ain't a-goin' to cry no more1 no more6 ,i'm got ear-ache1 an' ma can't make ,it quit a-tall2 ,an' ,carlo bite my rubber-ball ,an' puncture it2 an' ,sis she take ,an' poke my knife down through the stable-floor ,an' loozed it--blame it all6 ,but ,i ain't goin' to cry no more1 no more6 ,an' ,aunt ,mame wrote she's a-comin'1 an' she can't-- ,folks is come there6--,an' ,i don't care1 ,she is my ,aunt6 ,an' my eyes stings2 an' ,i'm ,ist coughin' all the time1 ,an' hurts me so1 an' where my side's so sore ,granpa felt where1 an' he ,says maybe it's pleurasy6 ,but ,i ain't goin' to cry no more1 no more6 ,an' ,i climbed up an' nen falled off the fence1 ,an' ,herbert he ist laugh at me6 ,an' my fi'-cents ,it sticked in my tin bank1 an' ,i ist tore ,purt' nigh my thumbnail off1 a-tryin' to git ,it out--nen smash it6--,an it's in there yit6 ,but ,i ain't goin' to cry no more1 no more6 ,oo6 ,i'm so wickud6--,an' my breath's so hot-- ,ist like ,i run an' don't rest none ,but ist run on when ,i ought to not2 ,yes1 an' my chin ,an' lip's all warpy1 an' my teeth's so fast1 ,an' 's a place in my throat ,i can't swaller past-- ,an' they all hurt so6-- ,an' oh1 my--oh6 ,i'm a-startin' a'gin-- ,i'm a-startin ag'in1 but ,i won't1 fer shore6-- ,i ist ain't goin' to cry no more1 no more6 ,,footnote3 #fc ,used by special permission of the publishers1 the ,bobbs-,merrill ,company4 ,from ,his ,pa's ,romance1 copyright1 #aijc4 ,,breaking ,,the ,,charm#fd ,,paul ,,laurence ,,dunbar ,caught ,susanner whistlin'2 well1 ,it's most nigh too good to tell4 ',twould 'a' b'en too good to see ,ef it hadn't b'en fur me1 ,comin' up so soft an' sly ,that she didn' hear me nigh4 ,i was pokin' round that day1 ,an' ez ,i come down the way1 ,first her whistle strikes my ears1-- ,then her gingham dress appears2 ,so with soft step up ,i slips4 ,oh1 them dewy1 rosy lips6 ,ripe ez cherries1 red an' round1 ,puckered up to make the sound4 ,she was lookin' in the spring1 ,whistlin' to beat anything1-- ,kitty ,dale er ,in the sweet4 ,i was just so mortal beat ,that ,i can't quite ricoleck ,what the toon was1 but ,i 'speck ',twas some hymn er other1 fur ,hymny things is jest like her4 ,well she went on fur awhile ,with her face all in a smile1 ,an' ,i never moved1 but stood ,stiller'n a piece o' wood-- ,wouldn't wink ner wouldn't stir1 ,but a-gazin' right at her1 ,tell she turns an' sees me--my6 ,thought at first she'd try to fly4 ,but she blushed an' stood her ground4 ,then1 a-slyly lookin' round1 ,she says3 ,did you hear me1 ,ben8 ,whistlin' woman1 crowin' hen1 ,says ,i1 lookin' awful stern4 ,then the red commenced to burn ,in them cheeks o' hern4 ,why1 la6 ,reddest red you ever saw-- ,pineys wa'n't a circumstance4 ,you'd a' noticed in a glance ,she was pow'rful shamed an' skeart2 ,but she looked so sweet an' peart1 ,that a idee struck my head2 ,so ,i up an' slowly said3 ,woman whistlin' brings shore harm1 ,jest one thing'll break the charm4 ,and what's that8 ,oh1 my6 says ,i1 ,i don't like to tell you4 ,why8 ,says ,susanner4 ,well1 you see ,it would kinder fall on me4 ,course ,i knowed that she'd insist1-- ,so ,i says3 ,you must be kissed ,by the man that heard you whistle2 ,everybody says that this'll ,break the charm and set you free ,from the threat'nin' penalty4 ,she was blushin' fit to kill1 ,but she answered1 kinder still3 ,i don't want to have no harm1 ,please come1 ,ben1 an' break the charm4 ,did ,i break that charm8--oh1 well1 ,there's some things ,i mustn't tell4 ,i remember1 afterwhile1 ,her a-sayin' with a smile3 ,oh1 you quit1--you sassy dunce1 ,you jest caught me whistlin' once4 ,,footnote3 #fd ,by permission of ,dodd1 ,mead ,co4 ,,candle-,,lightin' ,,time#fe ,,paul ,,laurence ,,dunbar ,when ,i come in f'om de co'n-fiel' aftah wukin' ha'd all day1 ,it's amazin' nice to fin' my suppah all erpon de way2 ,an' it's nice to smell de coffee bubblin' ovah in de pot1 ,an' it's fine to see de meat a-sizzlin' teasin'-lak an' hot4 ,but when suppah time is ovah an' de things is cl'ared away1 ,den de happy hours dat foller are de sweetes' ob de day4 ,when my co'n-cob pipe is sta'ted1 an' de smoke is drawin' prime1 ,my ole 'ooman says1 ,i reckon1 ,ike1 it's candle-lightin' time4 ,den de chillun snuggle up to me and all commence to call1 ,oh1 say1 daddy1 now it's time to make de shadders on de wall4 ,so ,i puts my han's togethah--evah daddy knows de way-- ,an' de chillun snuggle closer roun' es ,i begin to say1 ,fus thing1 hyeah come mistah ,rabbit1 don' you see him wuk his eahs8 ,huh uh6 dis mus' be a donky2 look how innercent he 'pears6 ,dah's de ole black swan a-swimmin'1 ain't she got a' awfu' neck8 ,who's dis feller dat's a-comin'8 why1 dat's ole dog ,tray ,i 'spec6 ,dat's de way ,i run on1 tryin' fer to please 'em all ,i can2 ,den ,i hollahs1 ,now be keerful1 dis hyeah las' 's de buga-man6 ,an' dey runs an' hides dey faces2 dey ain't skeered--dey's lettin' on1 ,but de play ain't raaly ovah twell dat buga-man is gone4 ,so ,i jes' takes up my banjo an' ,i plays a little chune1 ,an' you see dem hai'ds come peepin' out to listen mighty soon4 ,den my wife say1 ,sich a pappy fer to give you sich a fright6 ,jes' you go to bed1 an' leave him1 say yo' prayers1 an' say good night4 ,,footnote3 #fe ,by permission of ,dodd1 ,mead ,co41 publishers4 ,from ,lyrics of ,lowly ,life1 #ahif4 ,a ,,bird ,,in ,,the ,,hand ,f4 ,e4 ,,weatherly ,there were three young maids of ,lee1 ,and they were fair as fair can be2 ,and they had lovers three times three1 ,for they were fair as fair can be1 ,these three young maids of ,lee4 ,but these young maids they cannot find ,a lover each to suit her mind2 ,the plain-spoke lad is far too rough1 ,the rich young lord not rich enough1 ,and one's too poor1 and one too tall1 ,and one an inch too short for them all4 ,others pick and choose1 and why not we8 ,we can very well wait1 said these maids of ,lee4 ,there were three young maids of ,lee1 ,and they were fair as fair can be2 ,and they had lovers three times three1 ,for they were fair as fair can be1 ,these three young maids of ,lee4 ,there are three old maids of ,lee1 ,and they are old as old can be2 ,and one is deaf1 and one can't see1 ,and they all are cross as a gallows tree1 ,these three old maids of ,lee4 ,now1 if any one chanced--'tis a chance remote-- ,one single charm in these maids to note1 ,he need not a poet nor handsome be1 ,for one is deaf1 and one can't see2 ,he need not woo on his bended knee1 ,for they all are willing as willing can be2 ,he may take the one or the two or the three1 ,if he'll only take them away from ,lee4 ,there are three old maids at ,lee1 ,and they are cross as cross can be2 ,and there they are1 and there they'll be1 ,to the end of the chapter1 one1 two1 three1 ,these three old maids of ,lee6 ,,the ,,day ,,of ,,judgment#ff ,,elizabeth ,,stuart ,,phelps ,i am thirteen years old and ,jill is eleven and a quarter4 ,jill is my brother4 ,that isn't his name1 you know2 his name is ,timothy and mine is ,george ,zacharias2 but they call us ,jack and ,jill4 ,well1 ,jill and ,i had an invitation to ,aunt ,john's this summer1 and that was how we happened to be there4 ,i'd rather go to ,aunt ,john's than any place in the world4 ,when ,i was a little fellow ,i used to think ,i'd rather go to ,aunt ,john's than to ,heaven4 ,but ,i never dared to tell4 ,she invited us to come on the twelfth of ,august4 ,it takes all day to get there4 ,she lives at ,little ,river in ,new ,hampshire1 way up4 ,you have to wait at ,south ,lawrence in a poky little depot1 and you get some played out--at least ,i don't1 but ,jill does4 ,so we bought a paper and ,jill sat up and read it4 ,when he'd sat a minute and read along-- ,look here6 said he4 ,look where8 said ,i4 ,why1 there's going to be a comet1 said ,jill4 ,who cares8 said ,i4 ,jill laid down the paper1 and crunched a pop-corn all up before he answered that1 then said he1 ,i don't see why father didn't tell us4 ,i suppose he thought we'd be frightened1 or something4 ,why1 s'posing the world did come to an end8 ,that's what this paper says4 ',it is pre--' where is my place8 ,oh6 ,i see--'predicted by learned men that a comet will come into con-conjunction with our plant'--no--'our planet this night4 ,whether we shall be plunged into a wild vortex of angry space1 or suffocated with n-o-x--noxious gases1 or scorched to a helpless crisp1 or blasted at once1 eternal an-ni-hi--' ,a gust of wind grabbed the paper out of ,jill's hand just then1 and took it out of the window2 so ,i never heard the rest4 ,father isn't a goose1 said ,i4 ,he didn't think it worth while mentioning4 ,he isn't going to be afraid of a comet at his time of life4 ,so we didn't think any more about the comet till we got to ,aunt ,john's1 where we found company4 ,it wasn't a relation1 only an old school friend1 and her name was ,miss ,togy2 she had come without an invitation1 but had to have the spare room because she was a lady4 ,that was how ,jill and ,i came to be put in the little chimney bedroom4 ,that little chimney bedroom is the funniest place you ever slept in4 ,there had been a chimney once1 and it ran up by the window1 and grandfather had it taken away4 ,it was a big1 old-fashioned chimney1 and it left the funniest little gouge in the room1 so the bed went in as nice as could be4 ,we couldn't see much but the ceiling when we got to bed4 ,it's pretty dark1 said ,jill2 ,i shouldn't wonder if it did blow up a storm a little--wouldn't it scare--,miss--,bogy6 ,togy1 said ,i4 ,well1 ,t-o-- said ,jill2 and right in the middle of it he went off as sound as a weasel4 ,the next thing ,i can remember is a horrible noise4 ,i can't think of but one thing in this world it was like1 and that isn't in this world so much4 ,i mean the last trumpet1 with the angel blowing as he blows in my old primer4 ,the next thing ,i remember is hearing ,jill sit up in bed--for ,i couldn't see him1 it was so dark--and his piping out the other half of ,miss ,togy's name just as he had left it when he went to sleep4 ,gy--,bogy6--,fogy6--,soaky6--,oh1 said ,jill1 coming to at last1 ,i thought--why1 what's up8 ,i was up1 but ,i couldn't tell what else was for a little while4 ,i went to the window4 ,it was as dark as a great rat-hole out-of-doors1 all but a streak of lightning and an awful thunder1 as if the world was cracking all to pieces4 ,come to bed6 shouted ,jill1 you'll get struck1 and then that will kill me4 ,i went back to bed1 for ,i didn't know what else to do1 and we crawled down under the clothes and covered ourselves all up4 ,w-would--you--call--,aunt--,john8 asked ,jill4 ,he was most choked4 ,i came up for air4 ,no1 said ,i1 ,i don't think ,i'd call ,aunt ,john4 ,i should have liked to call her by that time1 but then ,i should have felt ashamed4 ,i s'pose she has got her hands full with ,miss ,croaky1 anyway1 chattered ,jill1 bobbing up and under again4 ,by that time the storm was the worst storm ,i had ever seen in my life4 ,it grew worse and worse--thunder1 lightning1 and wind--wind1 lightning1 and thunder2 rain and roar and awfulness4 ,i don't know how to tell how awful it was4 ,in the middle of the biggest peal we'd had yet1 up jumped ,jill4 ,jack6 said he1 that comet6 ,i'd never thought of the comet till that minute2 ,i felt an ugly feeling and cold all over4 ,it is the comet6 said ,jill4 ,it is the day of judgment1 ,jack4 ,then it happened4 ,it happened so fast ,i didn't even have time to get my head under the clothes4 ,first there was a creak1 then a crash1 then we felt a shake as if a giant pushed his shoulder up through the floor and shoved us4 ,then we doubled up4 ,and then we began to fall4 ,the floor opened1 and we went through4 ,i heard the bed-post hit as we went by4 ,then ,i felt another crash2 then we began to fall again2 then we bumped down hard4 ,after that we stopped falling4 ,i lay still4 ,my heels were doubled up over my head4 ,i thought my neck would break4 ,but ,i never dared to stir1 for ,i thought ,i was dead4 ,by and by ,i wondered if ,jill were dead too1 so ,i undoubled my neck a little and found some air4 ,it seemed just as uncomfortable to breathe without air when you were dead as when you weren't4 ,i called out softly1 ,jill6 no answer4 ,jill6 not a sound4 ,o--,jill6 ,but he did not speak1 so then ,i knew ,jill must be dead1 at any rate4 ,i couldn't help wondering why he was so much deader than ,i that he couldn't answer a fellow4 ,pretty soon ,i heard a rustling noise under my feet1 then a weak1 sick kind of a voice1 just the kind of a noise ,i always supposed ghosts would make if they could talk4 ,jack8 ,is that you1 ,jill8 ,i--suppose--so4 ,is it you1 ,jack8 ,yes4 ,are you dead8 ,i don't know4 ,are you8 ,i guess ,i must be if you are4 ,how awfully dark it is4 ,awfully dark6 ,it must have been the comet4 ,yes2 did you get much hurt8 ,not much--,i say1 ,jack8 ,what8 ,it is the judgment day4 ,jill broke up1 so did ,i2 we lay as still as we could4 ,if it were the judgment day--,jill6 said ,i4 ,oh1 dear me6 sobbed ,jill4 ,we were both crying by that time1 and ,i don't feel ashamed to own up1 either4 ,if ,i'd known1 said ,i1 that the day of judgment was coming on the twelfth of ,august1 ,i wouldn't have been so mean about that jack-knife of yours with the notch in it4 ,and ,i wouldn't have eaten your luncheon that day last winter when ,i got mad at you1 said ,jill4 ,nor we wouldn't have cheated mother about smoking1 vacations1 said ,i4 ,i'd never have played with the ,bailey boys out behind the barn1 said ,jill4 ,i wonder where the comet went to8 said ,i4 ',whether we shall be plunged into1' quoted ,jill1 in a horrible whisper1 from that dreadful newspaper1 'shall be plunged into a wild vortex of angry space--or suffocated with noxious gases--or scorched to a helpless crisp--or blasted--' ,when do you think they will come after us8 ,i interrupted ,jill4 ,that very minute somebody came4 ,we heard a step and then another1 then a heavy bang4 ,jill howled out a little4 ,i didn't1 for ,i was thinking how the cellar door banged like that4 ,then came a voice1 an awful hoarse and trembling voice as ever you heard4 ,george ,zacharias6 ,then ,i knew it must be the judgment day and that the angel had me in court to answer him1 for you couldn't expect an angel to call you ,jack after you was dead4 ,george ,zacharias6 said the awful voice again4 ,i didn't know what else to do1 ,i was so frightened1 so ,i just hollered out ,here6 as ,i do at school4 ,timothy6 came the voice once more4 ,now ,jill had a bright idea4 ,up he shouted1 ,absent6 at the top of his lungs4 ,george6 ,jack6 ,jill6 where are you8 ,are you killed8 ,oh1 wait a minute and ,i'll bring a light4 ,this did not sound so much like judgment day as it did like ,aunt ,john4 ,i began to feel better4 ,so did ,jill4 ,i sat up4 ,so did he4 ,it wasn't a minute till the light came into sight1 and something that looked like a cellar door1 the cellar steps1 and ,aunt ,john's spotted wrapper1 and ,miss ,togy in a night-gown1 away behind as white as a ghost4 ,aunt ,john held the light above her head and looked down4 ,i don't believe ,i shall ever see an angel that will make me feel any better to look at than ,aunt ,john did that night4 ,o you blessed boys6 said ,aunt ,john--she was laughing and crying together4 ,to think that you should have fallen through the old chimney to the cellar floor and be sitting there alive in such a funny heap as that6 ,and that was just what we had done4 ,the old flooring 7not very secure7 had given away in the storm2 and we'd gone down through two stories1 where the chimney ought to have been1 jam6 into the cellar on the coal heap1 and all as good as ever excepting the bedstead4 ,,footnote3 #ff ,from ,trot's ,wedding ,journey4 ,,de ,,appile ,,tree#fg ,,joel ,,chandler ,,harris ,dat's a mighty quare tale1 'bout de appile tree ,in de pah'dise gyardin1 whar ,adam runned free1 ,whar de butter-flies drunk honey wid ole mammy bee4 ,talk about yo good times1 ,i bet you he had 'em--,adam-- ,adam en ,eve1 an' de appile tree4 ,he woke one mawnin wid a pullin at he sleeve2 ,he open his eye1 an' dar was ,eve-- ,he shook her han'1 wid a ,honey1 don' grieve4 ,you's de only gal on earth for me ,an' dats de truf1 believe4 ,talk about yo good times1 ,i'll bet you dey had 'em--,adam-- ,adam en ,eve1 an' de appile tree4 ,den ,eve took a bite er de appile fruit ,en ,adam he bit1 en den dey scoot4 ,dar's whar de niggah leahn de quick cally hoot1 ,ben a runnin' ever since from somebody's boot4 ,en runned en hide behin' de fig tree--,adam-- ,adam en ,eve behin' de fig tree4 ,dey had der frolics1 en dey had dere flings1 ,den arter dat1 de fun tuck wings1 ,honey's mighty sweet1 but bees has stings ,an' dey came into de shadder dat de storm cloud brings4 ,talk about yo hahd times1 u-h-m uhm1 ,i bet you dey had 'em--,adam-- ,adam en ,eve behin' de fig tree4 ,kase outer de gyardin dey had fur tuh skin4 ,ter fin' de crack whar ,satan crept in ,dey sarch fur and wide1 dey sarch mighty well4 ,eve1 she knowed1 but she 'fused fur ter tell4 ,ole ,satan's trail was all rubbed out ',ceppen a track er two1 whar he walked about4 ,talk about troubles1 ,i bet you dey had 'em--,adam-- ,adam en ,eve1 en all dere kin4 ,well1 when dey got back de gate wuz shut4 ,an' dat wuz de pay1 what ,adam got4 ,in dat gyardin he went no moh4 ,de ober-seer gib him a shobel en a hoe1 ,a mule1 en a plow1 en a swingle tree1 ,talk about yo hahd times1 ,i bet you dey had 'em--,adam-- ,en all uh his chillen bofe slave en free4 ,en de chillen ob ,adam1 en de chillen's kin1 ,dey all got smeared wid de pitch ob sin4 ,dey shut dere eyes1 to de great here-atter1 ,en flung sin aroun'1 wid a turrible splatter4 ,en cahooted wid ,satan1 en dat wat de matter-- ,an' troubles1 well4 ,i bet you dey had 'em--,adam-- ,de chillen ob ,adam1 what forgot ter pray1 dey had 'em1 ,and dey keep on a hadden 'em down tuh dis day4 ,but dat wa'n't de las' ob de appile tree1 ,kase she scatter her seeds bofe fur en free1 ,and dat's whut de mattah wid you en me1 ,i knows de feelin's what brought on de fall1 ,dat same ole appile1 an' ole ,satan's call1 ,lor' bless yo chile1 ,i knows 'em all4 ,i'm kinder lop-sided en pigeon toed ,but jes' you watch me keep in de middle ob de road4 ,kase de troubles ,i'se got is a mighty heavy load4 ,talk about troubles1 ,i got 'em en had 'em1 ,same as ,adam4 ,an' don' yo see ,i mighty well know ,dat ,i got 'em from ,adam long ago1 ,from ,adam en ,eve en de appile tree1 ,when dey runned free ,in de pahdise gyardin ,wid butter-flies en honey bee8 ,,footnote3 #fg ,by permission of ,d4 ,appleton ,co4 ,,mr4 ,,dooley ,,on ,,la ,,grippe ,,microbes ,,finley ,,peter ,,dunne ,mr4 ,dooley was discovered making a seasonable beverage consisting of one part syrup1 two parts quinine and fifteen parts strong waters4 ,what's the matter8 asked ,mr4 ,mc,kenna4 ,i have th' lah gr-rip1 said ,mr4 ,dooley1 blowing his nose and wiping his eyes4 ,bad cess to it6 ,oh1 me poor back6 ,it feels as if a dhray had r-run over it4 ,did ye iver have it8 ,ye did not4 ,well1 ye'er lucky4 ,ye'er a lucky man4 ,i wint to ,mc,guire's wake las' week4 ,they give him a dacent sind-off4 ,no porther4 ,an' himsilf looked natural--as fine a corpse as iver ,gavin laid out4 ,gavin tould me so himsilf4 ,he was as pr-roud iv ,mc,guire as if he ownded him2 fetched half th' town in to look at him an' give ivery wan iv thim his ca-ards4 ,he near frightened ol' man ,dugan into a faint4 ',misther ,dugan1 how old a-are ye8' ',sivinty-five1 thanks be1' says ,dugan4 ',thin1' says ,gavin1 'take wan iv me ca-ards1' he says4 ',i hope ye'll not forget me1' he says4 ',twas there ,i got th' lah grip4 ,lasteways 'tis me opinion iv it1 though th' docther says ,i swallowed a bug4 ,it don't seem right1 ,jawn1 f'r th' ,mc,guires is a clane fam'ly1 but th' docther says a bug got into me system4 ',what sort iv bug8' says ,i4 ',a lah grip bug1' he says4 ',yez have ,mickrobes in ye'er lung1'he says4 ',what's thim8' says ,i4 ',thims th' lah grip bugs1' says he4 ',ye took wan in an' warmed it1' he says1 'an' it has growed an' multiplied till ye'er system does be full iv thim1' he says1 'millions iv thim1' he says1 'ma-archin' an' counthermarchin' through ye4' ',glory be to th' saints1' says ,i4 ',had ,i betther swallow some insect powdher8' ,i says4 ',some iv thim in me head has had a fallin' out an' is throwin' bricks4' ',foolish man1' says he4 ',go to bed1' he says1 'an lave thim alone1' he says4 ',whin they find who they're in1' he says1 'they'll quit ye4' ,so ,i wint to bed an' waited1 while th' ,mickrobes had fun with me4 ,monday all iv thim was quiet but thim in me stummick4 ,they stayed up late dhrinkin' an' carousin' an' dancin' jigs till wur-ruds come up bechune th' ,kerry ,mickrobes an' thim fr'm ,wixford an' th' whole pa-arty wint over to me lift lung1 where they could get th' air1 an' had it out4 ,th' nex' day th' little ,mickrobes made a toboggan slide iv me spine an' manetime some ,mickrobes that was wur-r-kin' f'r th' tiliphone comp'ny got it in their heads that me legs was poles1 an' put on their spikes an' climbed all night long4 ,they was tired out th' nex' day till about #e o'clock1 whin thim that was in me head begin flushin' out th' rooms an' ,i knew they're was goin' to be doings in th' top flat4 ,what did thim ,mickrobes in me head do but invite all th' other ,mickrobes in f'r th' avnin'4 ,they all come4 ,oh1 by gar1 they was not wan iv thim stayed away4 ,at #f o'clock they begun to move fr'm me shins to me thrawt4 ,they come in platoons an' squads an' dhroves4 ,some iv thim brought along brass bands an' more thin wan hundred thousand iv thim dhruv through me pipes in dhrays4 ,a throlley line was started up me back an ivry car r-run into a wagon load iv scrap iron at th' base iv me skull4 ,th' ,mickrobes in me head must've done thimsilves proud4 ,ivery few minutes some wan iv th' kids 'd be sint out with th' can an' ,i'd say to mesilf3 ',there they go1 carryin' th' trade to ,schwartzmeister's because ,i'm sick an' can't wait on thim4' ,i was daffy1 ,jawn1 d'ye mind8 ,th' likes iv me fillin' a pitcher f'r a little boy-bug6 ,ho1 ho6 ,such dhreams4 ,an' they had a game iv forty-fives1 an' there was wan ,mickrobe there that larned to play th' game in th' ,county ,tipp'rary1 where 'tis played on stone1 an' iv'ry time he led thrumps he'd like to knock me head off4 ',who's thrick is that8' says th' ,tipp'rary ,mickrobe4 ',tis mine1' says a little red-headed ,mickrobe fr'm th' ,county ,roscommon4 ,they tipped over th' chairs an' tables1 an' in less time thin it takes to tell th' whole pa-arty was at it4 ,they'd been a hurlin' game in th' back iv me skull an' th' young folks was dancin' breakdowns an' havin' leppin' matches in me forehead1 but they all stopped to mix in4 ,oh1 'twas a grand shindig--tin millions iv thim min1 women an' childher rowlin' on th' flure1 hands an' feet goin'1 icepicks an' hurlin' sticks1 clubs1 brickbats an' beer kags flyin' in th' air4 ,how manny iv thim was kilt ,i'll niver know1 f'r ,i wint as daft as a hen an' dhreamt iv organizin' a ,mickrobe ,campaign club1 that'd sweep th' prim'ries an' maybe go acrost an' free ,ireland4 ,whin ,i woke up me legs was as weak as a day-old babby's an' me poor head impty as a cobbler's purse4 ,i want no more iv thim4 ,give me anny bug fr'm a cockroach to an aygle save an' excipt thim wist iv ,ireland fenians--th' ,mickrobes4 ,a ,,doctrinal ,,discussion ,,harry ,,stillwell ,,edwards ,looking wearily over the far-stretching fields of corn1 the leaves twisting in the heat1 and contemplating the discouraging cotton prospect1 old ,uncle ,henry1 the plantation carpenter1 said1 half jestingly to a negro passing1 ,uncle ,ben1 why don't you pray for rain8 ,ef ,i had faith enough1 ,i could fetch er rain1 for don't de ,book say1 ef you have faith as er mustard seed you can move mountains8 ,i say you done parted from de faith1 ,unc' ,henry4 ,ef you was still en de faith1 an' ask anythin'1 you goin' ter git it4 ,why don't you ask fer er million dollars2 what you hoein' out dah en de sun fer1 when all you got ter do is ter ask de ,lord fer money8 ,dat ain't de question1 dat ain't hit4 ,you dodgin' now6 ,no1 ,i ain't dodgin'-- ,yes1 you is4 ,de ,lord don't sen' ter people what dey axes fer deyse'ves4 ,he only sen' blessin's4 ,ef ,i ax fer er million er money1 hit 'u'd be 'cause ,i'd natch'ly want ter quit work1 an' dat's erg'in' his law4 ,by de sweat er de brow de ,book says1 dat's how hit's got ter come ef hit come lawful4 ,well1 why don't you git rain1 then8 ,hyah's ,mr4 ,ed'ards waitin' an' waitin' fer rain1 payin' you ter hoe1 an' one good rain 'd do more fer him 'n all the hoein' in the worl'4 ,i didn't say ,i could fetch rain1 ,unc' ,henry1 ,i didn't say hit6 ,what did you say then8 ,i said1 ef ,i had faith4 ,you b'lieve ef you had faith you could fetch er rain8 ,yes1 ,i do6 ,well1 ain't dat faith8 ,ef you b'lieve hit1 hit's faith4 ,trouble is1 you don't b'lieve hit yo'se'f4 ,yes ,i do4 ,you done parted from de faith1 ,unc' ,henry1 dat's what ails you4 ,no1 ,i ain't parted from no faith1 but ,i got too much sense ter b'lieve any man can git rain by asking fer hit4 ,don't de ,book say1 ',ask1 an' you shall receive'8 ,not rain4 ,hit mean grace4 ,when hit comes ter rain1 de ,lord don't let nobody fool wid him2 he look atter de rain1 'specially hisse'f4 ,why1 man1 look at hit right6 ,s'pose two men side by side pray diffunt--an' wid faith--what happen8 ,yonder's ,mr4 ,ed'ards's oats ter be cut nex' week1 an' on 'tother side de fence ,unc' ,jim's gyarden burnin' up4 ,mr4 ,ed'ards wants dry weather1 an' ,jim want rain1 an' dey bofe pray deir own way6 ,bofe got faith1 now1 bofe got faith1 an' one pray fer rain while t'other pray fer dry weather2 what de ,lord goin' do8 ,is he goin' ter split er rain on dat fence8 ,answer me6 ,don't turn yo' back ter me2 answer me1 ,ben6 ,you want my answer8 ,yes1 ,i want hit4 ,don't stan' dah a stammerin'6 ,what de ,lord goin' do8 ,you want my answer8 ,well1 hyah 'tis4 ,de ,lord 'u'd sen' 'nough rain to help de gyarden1 but not 'nough ter hurt de oats4 ,dat's my answer6 ,you don't know what you all talkin' bout6 ,send 'nough rain ter help de gyarden1 an' not 'nough to hurt de oats6 ,you reckon ,mr4 ,ed'ards let er nigger stay on dis place an' pray fer rain when he cuttin' oats8 ,you reckon er nigger goin' ter come hyah an' run er market-gyarden wid 'im on sheers1 an' him er prayin' fer dry wedder when cabbage oughter be headin' up8 ,no1 sah6 ,you c'n pray fer grace1 an' when you gits grace you're all right1 rain er no rain2 but you better not resk yo'se'f on rain4 ,folks got ter have somebody ter settle when hit shall rain1 an' when hit sha'n't rain4 ,faith ain' got nothin' ter do 'ith hit4 ,it takes horse sense4 ,why1 ef de ,lord was ter tie er rope to de flood-gates1 an' let hit down hyah ter be pulled when dey need rain1 somebody'd git killed ev'y time dey pulled hit4 ,folks wid oats ter cut 'u'd lie out wid dey guns an' gyard dat rope1 an' folks wid cabbages 'd be sneakin' up in de dyark tryin' ter git hold er hit4 ,fus' thing you know1 er cem'tery grow up roun' dyah an' nobody lef' ter pull de rope6 ,faith 'u'd fetch it4 ,yes1 sah1 hit'll fetch hit4 ,you got any8 ,not 'nough ter fetch rain4 ,yo' fam'bly got any8 ,not 'nough fer rain4 ,well den it look like faith es 'bout as scyarce an' hard ter git as rain4 ,has ,macedony ,church got any8 ,plenty4 ,got 'nough fer rain8 ,plenty4 ,well den you go down dyah to prayer-meeting ter-night2 an' take yo' fambly1 an' all de niggers in de settlement what' got faith1--don't get none but faith niggers1--an' see ef you git er rain4 ,you git rain1 an' ,i'll give up4 ,i hyah you all been prayin' fer me ter come in chu'ch--cause de ole roof wants patchin' ,i reckon4 ,git de rain an' you gits me too4 ,go on1 an' try hit4 ,i ain't got no time ter waste4 ,fus' thing you know1 rain'll be pourin' down1 an' dat dah chu'ch'll be leakin' faster'n a sieve4 ,you goin' ter git rain1 ,ben8 ,yes1 ,i'm going' ter try4 ,an' ef we have faith we'll git hit4 ,hit's a dry moon2 ain't narry drop of water dyah1 but faith c'n do hit4 ,the next morning a thin little cloud floated out of the brazen east1 a mere ghost of a cloud1 and from it was sifted down for about two minutes the poorest apology that nature ever made to injured verdure4 ,soon it passed into nothingness1 and the full sun blazed over the parched land once more4 ,a triumphant laugh was heard out where the hands were hoeing1 and ,ben's voice was recognized above all the others4 ,they were congratulating him upon his success1 when up came old ,henry1 his sack of carpenter's tools on his back4 ,ben shouted1 ,hello1 ,unc' ,henry4 ,i told you we'd fetch hit4 ,ben1 did you say hit only taks faith as er grain er mustard seed ter move er mountain8 ,yes1 sah4 ,well now1 hyah's de whole of ,macedony ,church1 full of faith niggers1 a prayin' for rain1 an' de whole pack o' 'em can't lay de dust6 ,,finnigin ,,to ,,flannigan#fh ,s4 ,w4 ,,gillilan ,superintindint wuz ,flannigan2 ,boss of the siction wuz ,finnigin2 ,whiniver the kyars got offen the thrack ,an' muddled up things t' th' divil an' back1 ,finnigin writ it to ,flannigan1 ,afther the wrick wuz all on agin4 ,that is1 this ,finnigin ,repoorted to ,flannigan4 ,whin ,finnigin furst writ to ,flannigan ,he writ tin pages--did ,finnigin4 ,an' he tould jist how the smash occurred-- ,full minny a tajus1 blunderin' wurrd ,did ,finnigin write to ,flannigan ,afther the cars had gone on agin4 ,that wuz how ,finnigin ,repoorted to ,flannigan4 ,now ,flannigan knowed more than ,finnigin-- ,had more idjucation--had ,flannigan2 ,an' it wore 'm clane an' complately out ,to tell what ,finnigin writ about ,in his writin' to ,muster ,flannigan4 ,so he writed back to ,finnigin3 ,don't do sich a sin agin6 ,make 'em brief1 ,finnigin6 ,whin ,finnigin got this frum ,flannigan1 ,he blushed rosy rid--did ,finnigin2 ,an' he said3 ,i'll gamble a whole moonth's pa-ay ,that it will be minny an' minny a da-ay ,befoore ,sup'rintindint--that's ,flannigan-- ,gits a whack at this very same sin agin4 ,from ,finnigin to ,flannigan ,repoorts won't be long agin4 ,wan da-ay on the siction of ,finnigin1 ,on the road sup'rintinded by ,flannigan1 ,a rail give way on a bit av a curve1 ,an' some kyears went off as they made the swerve4 ,there's nobody hurted1 sez ,finnigin1 ,but repoorts must be made to ,flannigan1 ,an' he winked at ,mc,gorrigan ,as married a ,finnigin4 ,he wus shantyin' thin1 wuz ,finnigin1 ,as minny a railroader's been agin1 ,an' the shmoky ol' lamp wuz burnin' bright ,in ,finnigin's shanty all that night-- ,bilin' down his repoort1 wuz ,finnigin4 ,an' he writed this here3 ,muster ,flannigan3 ,off agin1 on agin1 ,gone agin4--,finnigin4 ,,footnote3 #fh ,by permission of the author4 ,,gavroche ,,and ,,the ,,elephant#fi ,,victor ,,hugo ,a story of how ,gavroche1 a street gamin of ,paris1 uses for a home the monument built in the form of a huge elephant1 which ,napoleon ,bonaparte erected in #ahbc4 ,the forest has a bird4 ,paris a child4 ,the bird is called a sparrow4 ,the child--a gamin4 ,this little being is joyous2 he has not food every day2 no shoes on his feet2 not much clothing on his body4 ,he runs1 he swears like a convict1 he haunts all the wine shops1 knows all the thieves--but he has no evil in his heart4 ,little ,gavroche was one of these4 ,he had been dispatched into life with a kick and had simply taken flight4 ,the pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart4 ,one evening1 little ,gavroche was skipping along an alley1 hands in his pockets and singing merrily1 when he came upon a young man who had a wild1 happy look in his eye1 but no hat on his head4 ,whoa there1 monsieur1 where's your roof8 ,you've got enough light in them blinkers of yours to light up my apartments--say1 monsieur1 you're either crazy or you've had an awful good time6 ,be off with you1 imp4 ,say1 did you know there wus a goin' ter be war in this town in a few days and ,i'm goin' to enlist as general of the army--,forward--,march--,say1 monsieur1 ,i believe ,i know you1 yes1 sir1 ,i've seen you down in that ,napoleon meetin' way down there in that cellar-- ,oh1 be off with you1 imp6 ,yes1 sir1 ,i'm goin' now4 ,sorry ,i can't walk with you further1 but business calls me in the other direction4 ,good evenin'1 monsieur--,watch out there4 ,can't ye see where yer goin'8 ,little more an' ye'd been eatin' the dandelions6 ,good evenin'1 monsieur6 ,a little further down the street1 ,gavroche was standing scrutinizing a shop window1 when two little children came up to him crying4 ,what's the matter with you1 brats8 ,boo-hoo--we--ain't got no place to sleep4 ,the idea a bawlin' about that4 ,come along with me1 ,i'll give ye a place to sleep4 ,say1 hev ye got any shiners8 ,boo-hoo--no--sir6 ,well1 come along with me4 ,i'm rich4 ,ye can't hear 'em rattle1 but all is not gold that rattles4 ,monsieur1 we--boo-hoo--we asked that barber man over there to let us get warm in his store and--and--he wouldn't do--it--boo-hoo6 ,well1 now1 don't bawl about that4 ,he don't know no better4 ,he's an ,englishman4 ,but ,i'll jes' take a note of that insult4 ,takes paper from his pocket and writes4--,get even with ,barber at #fc ,rue ,saint ,antoine4 ,too mean to occupy space here below4 ,there now6 that'll fix 'em4 ,hurry along here now or my hotel will be closed4--,say1 brats1 you stay here a minute4 ,there is a poor little girl what's cold and she ain't got nothin' around her4 ,you stay here till ,i gits back4 ,there1 little girl1 take my scarf and put around you4 ,this kind of life is alright fer boys but it's pretty tough on girls4 ,brr6 it's rather chilly4 ,and ,i'll eat a piece out o' ,hades if it ain't re-raining again4 ,monsieur1 boo-hoo--we--ain't had nothin' to eat--since--morning4 ,well1 now don't bawl about that4 ,let me see--oh1 here's a shop4 ,shovel in here4 ,boy1 give us five centimes worth o' bread4 ,for how many8 ,well1 there seem to be two uv 'em4 ,here--now take that--brat senior1 and you take that1 brat junior--now grub away4 ,ram that into your muzzle4 ,don't you understand8 ,well1 classically speaking--eat4 ,well1 ,i thought ye knew how to do that4 ,whistles ,marseillaise until they have finished1 then stops suddenly and says to the boy behind the counter4--,say1 ain't them two nice specimens to be bawlin' jes' 'cause they ain't got no home8 ,hey there1 are ye through8 ,well1 shovel out1 then4 ,we've got to hurry or the elephant will have closed down his ears4 ,hey there1 ,montparnasse6 ,see my two kids8 ,well1 where did you get them1 ,gavroche8 ,oh1 a gentleman made me a present of 'em1 down the street--say1 they've got hides like linseed plasters1 hain't they8 ,where are you taking them1 ,gavroche8 ,to my lodging--the ,elephant4 ,the ,elephant6 ,yes--the ,el-e-phant4 ,any complaints8 ,you don't mean ,napoleon's monument8 ,i mean ,napoleon's monument--,you see when ,napoleon left for ,elba1 he put me in charge of the ,elephant4 ,forward1 march1 there1 brats6 ,good evenin'1 ,montparnasse4 ,on arriving at the ,elephant1 ,gavroche climbed up and then invited his friends to come up4 ,hey1 there1 brat senior--see that ladder8 ,well1 put your foot on--,now ye ain't agoin' ter be afraid are ye8 ,here1 give me your hands--,now--up--,there1 you stand still now1 till ,i git yer little brother up--,here1 brat junior4 ,oh1 can't you reach that ladder8 ,well1 step on the ,elephant's corn then--,that's the way--,now--up--,there6 ,now1 gentlemen1 you're on the inside of the ,elephant4 ,don't ye feel something like ,jonah8 ,but stop yer talkin' now fer we're goin' straight ter bed4 ,this way to yer sleepin' apartments--,here1 brat junior1 we'll wrap you up in this blanket4 ,o1 thank you1 sir4 ,it's so nice and warm4 ,well1 that's what the monkeys thought4 ,here1 senior1 you take this mattress4 ,ye see1 ,i stole these from the ,jardin de ,plants4 ,but ,i told the animals over there that they were fer the ,elephant and they said that was all right4 ,are ye in bed8 ,now ,i am goin' ter suppress de candelabra4 ,blows out candle4 ,whew6 listen to it rain4 ,how the rain do be runnin' down the legs of this here house4 ,that's first class thunder too4 ,whew6 that's no slouch uv a streak uv lightnin' nuther4 ,here1 calm down there1 gentlemen1 or ye'll topple over this edifice4 ,time ter sleep now1 good-night4 ,shut yer peepers6 ,oh1 sir8 ,hey8 ,what's that noise8 ,why--it's--rats4 ,oh1 sir4 ,hey8 ,what is rats8 ,oh--rats--is--mice4 ,sir8 ,hey8 ,why don't you get a cat8 ,oh--,i--,i did have--a cat and--and the rats eat 'er up4 ,boo-hoo4 ,will they eat us up too8 ,ah--no--they won't eat you4 ,you ain't got enough meat on you4 ,besides ,i got 'em all screened off with a wire4 ,they can't get at ye4 ,see here--,ef yer goin' ter be afraid1 take hold er my hand an' ,i'll lay down long side o' yer and go ter sleep--,now ,i fergot ter tell you gentlemen that when ye wake up--,i'll be gone1 fer business calls me early1 but ye're to make this yer home jes' as long as yer wants ter and come here jes' whenever yer wants ter4 ,now fer the last time--good-night6 ,,footnote3 #fi ,a dramatization from ,les ,miserables1 by ,lucy ,dean ,jenkins4 ,,the ,,hazing ,,of ,,valiant ,,anonymous ,she was a small girl1 but her sense of the ridiculous was tremendous4 ,all summer long she sat on the sand and was nice to two boys1 a sub-freshman and a sophomore4 ,the sub-freshman's name was ,valiant2 he had a complexion that women envied1 he was small and dainty and smelled sweet4 ,the other1 whose name was ,buckley1 was bigger and much more self-assertive4 ,one day the girl decided it would be fun to make them hate each other1 and after that1 when they were all three together1 the sophomore would tell her how hard his class would haze the freshman in the ,fall1 while the sub-freshman only gazed out over the water and smiled4 ,but one day the sophomore made a remark about pretty pink-cheeked boys1 which had better been left unsaid4 ,then arose the younger one and shaking impressively a slender pink-nailed finger he spoke1 ,you had better not try to haze me1 ,will ,buckley4 ,in the good old days you had only to casually drop a word to a freshman on the way to recitation to wait for you when evening came1 and he would turn up promptly1 take his little dose meekly and go back to bed a better boy for it4 ,but all that is changed now4 ,twice had ,buckley waited near the house where ,valiant ate his dinner4 ,he had tried several ways of getting into the house where ,valiant lived1 but without success2 then for three successive nights he waited in an alley near by2 on the third night ,valiant came1 but with him an upper classman friend4 ,buckley kept in the shadow but ,valiant called out1 ,oh1 is that you1 ,mr4 ,buckley8 ,how do you do8 ,aren't you coming in to see me8 ,which was decidedly fresh4 ,not now1 ,i'll drop in later4 ,which is your room8 ,that room up there1 see8 ,the next night ,buckley got his gang together4 ,they decided that a dip in the canal would be excellent for ,valiant's health2 if he felt cold after that he could climb a telephone pole for exercise4 ,it was nearly two o'clock when they carried a ladder into the alley way4 ,this was a particularly nervy go4 ,a young professor and his young wife had a suite of rooms in this house2 it was moonlight1 and a certain owl-eyed proctor was pretty sure to pass not far away2 but if they hurried they thought they could send a man up and get away without being caught4 ,buckley was to get in the window1 which was open1 it being a warm night1 the others were to hustle away with the ladder1 and wait for him at a street several blocks distant4 ,there was no doubt but that ,valiant would have to come with him4 ,buckley climbed up1 got one foot over the sill1 and was in the room4 ,he leaned out and raised his hand4 ,silently the ladder disappeared4 ,he turned and started across the room2 when a soft voice said1 ,is that you1 dear8 ,then before all the blood in his body had time to freeze1 he stepped out of the moonlight into the shadow and whispered1 ,shsss6 ,instinct made him do this4 ,across the silence the soft voice came again1 ,oh1 ,i'm not asleep4 ,but why did you stay so long1 ,guy dear8 ,buckley heard the squeaking of a bed-spring and as his knees stiffened he spied coming toward him something white with two black streaks hanging half way down1 which as the thing came into the moonlight1 he saw to be long braids of dark hair4 ,it was a tall1 slender figure clothed in a white garment4 ,the face was young and beautiful4 ,buckley closed his eyes4 ,but it came nearer and nearer4 ,he stood up perfectly rigid in the darkness as two soft arms reached up and met about his neck4 ,buckley did not budge and the soft voice began1 ,you have not forgiven me yet4 ,it began to sob4 ,you know ,i did not mean it4 ,won't you forgive me8 ,tell me you do forgive me4 ,say it with your own lips1 ,guy dear4 ,speak to me1 my husband6 ,buckley didn't4 ,a soft1 fragrant hand came up along his cheek1 which tingled1 and over his eyes1 which quivered4 ,for fully a half minute he tried to think what to do1 then he gritted his teeth and placed one arm about her waist and threw the other around her neck in such a way that he could draw it tight if necessary4 ,suddenly she raised her head1 gave one startled look into his face1 and with a shuddering gasp1 she recoiled4 ,for ,heaven's sake1 don't scream--,i can explain6 ,ugh1 oh1 let go6 ,who--let me go1 or ,i'll screa-ch-ch-ch6 ,buckley pressed on the windpipe1 feeling like three or four murderers as he did so4 ,oh1 please1 if you scream it'll only make things awfully awkward4 ,i got in here by mistake4 ,oh1 please keep quiet4 ,promise me you'll not cry out1 and ,i'll let you go4 ,yes1 yes1 ,i promise1 said the scared voice4 ,buckley released his grasp4 ,she fled across the room4 ,he thought she was making for the door and sprang to stop her1 but she only snatched up an afghan or something from the sofa1 and holding it about her1 retreated to the dark part of the room1 moaning1 ,oh1 dear6 oh1 dear6 ,i don't know who you are1 but ,i wish you wouldn't cry4 ,please be calm4 ,it's all a big mistake1 ,i thought ,i was coming to my own room-- ,your own room6 ,i mean my classmate's room1--,i mean ,i thought a freshman roomed here4 ,you aren't half so sorry as ,i am--oh1 yes1 you are--,i mean ,i'm awfully sorry1 and wish to apologize4 ,i didn't mean anything4 ,mean anything6 ,really ,i didn't4 ,if you'll only let me go down and promise not to wake the house before ,i get out1 why no one will ever know anything about it and ,i'll promise not to do it again4 ,just as soon as ,i get my breath ,i mean to wake up the whole house1 and the whole town if ,i can4 ,buckley started across the room4 ,stop6 ,you promised not to scream4 ,you forced me to promise4 ,i am going to scream4 ,the bold1 bad sophomore went down on his knees with his hands clasped toward the dark where the voice came from4 ,oh1 don't1 please don't4 ,have pity on me4 ,you stay right there in the moonlight4 ,right here8 ,right there1 and if you dare to move ,i'll scream with all my might4 ,buckley shivered and froze stiff4 ,and then he began to plead4 ,please1 oh1 please1 whoever you are1 won't you forgive me and let me go8 ,i wouldn't harm a girl for the world4 ,i'll be fired--,i mean expelled from college--,i'll be disgraced for life4 ,i'll-- ,stop6 ,while it may be true that you did not break into my room with intent to rob or injure a defenseless woman1 yet1 by your own confession you came to torment a weaker person4 ,you came to haze a freshman4 ,and when my husband-- ,have mercy1 have mercy4 ,if ,i'm fired from college ,i'll be disgraced for life4 ,all my prospects will be blighted2 my life will be ruined1 and my mother's heart broken4 ,she gave a little hysterical sob3-- ,for your poor mother's sake1 go6 ,oh1 thank you with all my heart4 ,my mother would too if she could know4 ,i don't deserve to be treated so well4 ,i shall always think of you as my merciful benefactress4 ,i can never forgive myself for causing you pain4 ,oh1 thank you1 and ,buckley the proud sophomore groveled out of the room4 ,next morning he received a letter1 which read as follows3 ,just as a tall woman looks short in a man's make-up1 so does a short man look tall in a woman's make-up1 and you should know that blondes are hard to recognize in brunette wigs4 ,you ought to know that a real girl wouldn't have behaved quite that way4 ,you see you still have a number of things to learn1 even though you are a soph4 ,hoping that you will learn to forgive yourself1 ,i am1 ,your merciful benefactress1 ,h4 ,g4 ,,valiant4 ,,the ,,hindoo',s ,,paradise ,,anonymous ,a ,hindoo died1 a happy thing to do1 ,when twenty years united to a shrew4 ,released1 he hopefully for entrance cries ,before the gates of ,brahma's paradise4 ,hast thou been through purgatory8 ,brahma said1 ,no1 but ,i've been married1 and he hung his head4 ,come in1 come in1 and welcome too1 my son1 ,marriage and purgatory are as one4 ,in bliss extreme he entered heaven's door1 ,and knew the peace he ne'er had known before4 ,but scarce had he entered the garden fair1 ,when another ,hindoo asked admission there4 ,the self-same question1 ,brahma asked1 ,hast thou been through purgatory8 ,no1 what then8 ,thou canst not enter1 did the ,god reply4 ,why1 he that entered first was there no more than ,i4 ,all that is true1 but he has married been1 ,and so on earth1 had suffered from all sin4 ,married1 'tis well1 ,i've been married twice4 ,begone1 we'll have no fools in ,paradise4 ,,if ,i ,,knew ,,anonymous ,if ,i knew the box where the smiles are kept1 ,no matter how large the key1 ,or strong the bolt1 ,i would try so hard1 ',twould open1 ,i know1 for me4 ,then over the land and sea broadcast1 ,i'd scatter the smiles to play1 ,that the children's faces might hold them fast ,for many and many a day4 ,if ,i knew a box that was large enough ,to hold all the frowns ,i meet1 ,i would like to gather them1 every one1 ,from the nursery1 school and street1 ,then1 holding and folding ,i'd pack them in1 ,and turning the monster key ,i'd hire a giant to drop the box1 ,into the depths of the sea4 ,,the ,,imaginary ,,invalid#gj ,,jerome ,k4 ,,jerome ,i remember going to the ,british ,museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which ,i had a touch--hay fever1 ,i fancy it was4 ,i got down the book1 and read all ,i came to read2 and then1 in an unthinking moment1 ,i idly turned the leaves1 and began to indolently study diseases generally4 ,i forget which was the first distemper ,i plunged into--some fearful1 devastating scourge ,i know--and1 before ,i had glanced half down the list of premonitory symptoms1 it was borne in upon me that ,i had fairly got it4 ,i sat for a while1 frozen with horror2 and then1 in the listlessness of despair1 ,i again turned over the pages4 ,i came to typhoid fever--read the symptoms--discovered that ,i had typhoid fever1 must have had it for months without knowing it--wondered what else ,i had got2 turned up ,st4 ,vitus's ,dance--found1 as ,i expected1 that ,i had that too1--began to get interested in my case1 and determined to sift it to the bottom and so started alphabetically--read up ague1 and learned that ,i was sickening for it1 and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight4 ,bright's disease1 ,i was relieved to find1 ,i had only in a modified form1 and1 so far as that was concerned1 ,i might live for years4 ,cholera ,i had1 with severe complications2 and diphtheria ,i seemed to have been born with4 ,i plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters1 and the only malady ,i could conclude ,i had not got was housemaid's knee4 ,i felt rather hurt about this at first2 it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight4 ,why hadn't ,i got housemaid's knee8 ,why this invidious reservation8 ,after a while1 however1 less grasping feelings prevailed4 ,i reflected that ,i had every other known malady in the pharmacology1 and grew less selfish1 and determined to do without housemaid's knee4 ,gout1 in its most malignant stage1 it would appear1 had seized me without my being aware of it2 and zymosis ,i had evidently been suffering with from boyhood4 ,there were no more diseases after zymosis1 so ,i concluded there was nothing else the matter with me4 ,i sat and pondered4 ,i thought what an interesting case ,i must be from a medical point of view1 what an acquisition ,i should be to a class6 ,students would have no need to walk the hospitals1 if they had me4 ,i was a hospital in myself4 ,all they need do would be to walk around me1 and1 after that1 take their diploma4 ,then ,i wondered how long ,i had to live4 ,i tried to examine myself4 ,i felt my pulse4 ,i could not at first feel any pulse at all4 ,then1 all of a sudden1 it seemed to start off4 ,i pulled out my watch and timed it4 ,i made a hundred and forty-seven to the minute4 ,i tried to feel my heart4 ,i could not feel my heart4 ,it had stopped beating4 ,i have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time1 and must have been beating1 but ,i cannot account for it4 ,i patted myself all over my front1 from what ,i call my waist up to my head1 and ,i went a bit round each side1 and a little way up the back4 ,but ,i could not feel or hear anything4 ,i tried to look at my tongue4 ,i stuck it out as far as ever it would go1 and ,i shut one eye1 and tried to examine it with the other4 ,i could only see the tip1 and the only thing that ,i could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that ,i had scarlet fever4 ,i went to my medical man4 ,he is an old chum of mine1 and feels my pulse1 and looks at my tongue1 and talks about the weather1 all for nothing1 when ,i fancy ,i'm ill2 so ,i thought ,i would do him a good turn by going to him now4 ,what a doctor wants1 ,i said1 is practice4 ,he shall have me4 ,he will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary1 commonplace patients1 with only one or two diseases each4 ,so ,i went straight up and saw him1 and he said3 ,well1 what's the matter with you8 ,i said3 ,i will not take up your time1 dear boy1 with telling you what is the matter with me4 ,life is brief1 and you might pass away before ,i had finished4 ,but ,i will tell you what is not the matter with me4 ,i have not got housemaid's knee4 ,why ,i have not got housemaid's knee1 ,i cannot tell you2 but the fact remains that ,i have not got it4 ,everything else1 however1 ,i have got4 ,and ,i told him how ,i came to discover it all4 ,then he opened me and looked down me1 and clutched hold of my wrist1 and then he hit me over the chest when ,i wasn't expecting it--a cowardly thing to do1 ,i call it--and immediately afterward butted me with the side of his head4 ,after that1 he sat down and wrote out a prescription1 and folded it up and gave it me1 and ,i put it in my pocket and went out4 ,i did not open it4 ,i took it to the nearest chemist's and handed it in4 ,the man read it and then handed it back4 ,he said he didn't keep it4 ,i said3 ,you are a chemist8 ,i am a chemist4 ,if ,i was a cooeperative store and family hotel combined ,i might be able to oblige you4 ,being only a chemist hampers me4 ,i read the prescription4 ,it ran3 #a lb4 beefsteak1 every #f hours1 #a ten-mile walk every morning1 #a bed at #aa sharp every night4 ,and don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand4 ,,footnote3 #gj ,from ,three ,men in a ,boat1 published by ,henry ,holt ,co4 ,,jane ,,jones#ga ,,ben ,f4 ,,king ,jane ,jones keeps talkin' to me all the time1 ,an' says you must make it a rule ,to study your lessons 'nd work hard 'nd learn1 ,an' never be absent from school4 ,remember the story of ,elihu ,burrit1 ,an' how he clum up to the top1 ,got all the knowledge 'at ever he had ,down in a blacksmithing shop6 ,jane ,jones she honestly said it was so6 ,mebbe he did-- ,i dunno6 ,o' course what's a-keepin' me 'way from the top1 ,is not never havin' no blacksmithing shop4 ,she said 'at ,ben ,franklin was awfully poor1 ,but full of ambition an' brains2 ,an' studied philosophy all his hull life1 ,an' see what he got for his pains6 ,he brought electricity out of the sky1 ,with a kite an' a bottle an' key1 ,an' we're owing him more 'n any one else ,for all the bright lights 'at we see4 ,jane ,jones she honestly said it was so6 ,mebbe he did-- ,i dunno6 ,o' course what's allers been hinderin' me ,is not havin' any kite1 lightning1 er key4 ,jane ,jones said ,abe ,lincoln had no books at all ,an' used to split rails when a boy2 ,an' ,general ,grant was a tanner by trade ,an' lived way out in ,ill'nois4 ,so when the great war in the ,south first broke out ,he stood on the side o' the right1 ,an' when ,lincoln called him to take charge o' things ,he won nearly every blamed fight4 ,jane ,jones she honestly said it was so6 ,mebbe he did-- ,i dunno6 ,still ,i ain't to blame1 not by a big sight1 ,for ,i ain't never had any battles to fight4 ,she said 'at ,columbus was out at the knees ,when he first thought up his big scheme1 ,an' told all the ,spaniards 'nd ,italians1 too1 ,an' all of 'em said 'twas a dream4 ,but ,queen ,isabella jest listened to him1 ',nd pawned all her jewels o' worth1 ',nd bought him the ,santa ,maria 'nd said1 ,go hunt up the rest o' the earth6 ,jane ,jones she honestly said it was so6 ,mebbe he did-- ,i dunno6 ,o' course that may be1 but then you must allow ,they ain't no land to discover jest now6 ,,footnote3 #ga ,by permission of the author and ,forbes ,co41 publishers4 ,,knee-,,deep ,,in ,,june#gb ,,james ,,whitcomb ,,riley ,tell you what ,i like the best-- ',long about knee-deep in ,june1 ',bout the time strawberries melt ,on the vine1--some afternoon ,like to jes' git out and rest1 ,and not work at nothin' else6 ,orchard's where ,i'd ruther be-- ,needn't fence it in fer me6 ,jes' the whole sky overhead1 ,and the whole airth underneath-- ,sorto' so's a man kin breathe ,like he ort1 and kind o' has ,elbow-room to keerlessly ,sprawl out len'thways on the grass ,where the shadders thick and soft ,as the kivvers on the bed ,mother fixes in the loft ,allus1 when they's company6 ,jes' a-sorto' lazin' there-- ,s'lazy1 'at you peek and peer ,through the wavin' leaves above ,like a feller 'at's in love ,and don't know it1 ner don't kere6 ,ever'thing you hear and see ,got some sort o' interest-- ,maybe find a bluebird's nest ,tucked up there conveenently ,fer the boy 'at's apt to be ,up some other apple-tree6 ,watch the swallers skootin' past ',bout as peert as you could ast2 ,er the ,bob-white raise and whiz ,where some other's whistle is4 ,ketch a shadder down below1 ,and look up to find the crow-- ,er a hawk1--away up there1 ',pearantly froze in the air6-- ,hear the old hen squak1 and squat ,over ever' chick she's got1 ,suddent-like--,and she knows where ,that-air hawk is1 well as you6-- ,you jes' bet yer life she do6-- ,eyes a-glitterin' like glass1 ,waitin' till he makes a pass6 ,pee-wees' singin'1 to express ,my opinion1 's second class1 ,yit you'll hear 'em more er less2 ,sapsucks gittin' down to biz1 ,weedin' out the lonesomeness2 ,mr4 ,bluejay1 full o' sass1 ,in them base-ball clothes o' his1 ,sportin' 'round the orchard jes' ,like he owned the premises6 ,sun out in the fields kin sizz1 ,but flat on yer back1 ,i guess1 ,in the shade's where glory is6 ,that's jes' what ,i'd like to do ,stiddy fer a year er two6 ,plague6 ef they ain't somepin' in ,work 'at kindo' goes ag'in ,my convictions6--'long about ,here in ,june especially6-- ,under some old apple-tree1 ,jes' a-restin' through and through1 ,i could git along without ,nothin else at all to do ,only jes' a-wishin' you ,was a-gittin' there like me1 ,and ,june war eternity6 ,lay out there and try to see ,jes' how lazy you kin be6-- ,tumble round and souse yer head ,in the clover-bloom1 er pull ,yer straw hat acrost yer eyes1 ,and peek through it at the skies1 ,thinkin' of old chums 'at's dead1 ,maybe1 smilin' back at you ,in betwixt the beautiful ,clouds o' gold and white and blue6-- ,month a man kin railly love-- ,june1 you know1 ,i'm talkin' of6 ,march ain't never nothin' new6 ,aprile's altogether too ,brash fer me6 and ,may--,i jes' ',bominate its promises1-- ,little hints o' sunshine and ,green around the timber-land-- ,a few blossoms1 and a few ,chip-birds1 and a sprout er two-- ,drap asleep1 and it turns in ',fore daylight and snows ag'in6-- ,but when ,june comes--,clear my th'oat ,with wild honey6--,rench my hair ,in the dew6 and hold my coat6 ,whoop out loud6 and th'ow my hat6-- ,june wants me1 and ,i'm to spare6 ,spread them shadders anywhere1 ,i'll git down and waller there1 ,and obleeged to you at that6 ,,footnote3 #gb ,from ,afterwhiles1 published by the ,bobbs-,merrill ,co41 ,indianapolis1 ,ind4 ,,little ,,breeches#gc ,,john ,,hay ,i don't go much on religion1 ,i never ain't had no show2 ,but ,i've got a middlin' tight grip1 sir1 ,on the handful o' things ,i know4 ,i don't pan out on the prophets1 ,and free-will and that sort of thing1 ,but ,i believe in ,god and the angels1 ,ever sence one night last spring4 ,i come into town with some turnips1 ,and my little ,gabe come along-- ,no four-year-old in the country ,could beat him for pretty and strong1 ,peart and chipper and sassy1 ,always ready to swear and fight-- ,and ,i'd larnt him to chew terbacker1 ,jest to keep his milk teeth white4 ,the snow come down like a blanket ,as ,i passed by ,taggart's store2 ,i went in for a jug of molasses ,and left the team at the door4 ,they scared at something and started-- ,i heard one little squall1 ,and hell-to-split over the prairie ,went team1 ,little ,breeches and all4 ,hell-to-split over the prairie6 ,i was almost froze with skeer2 ,but we rousted up some torches1 ,and searched for 'em far and near4 ,at last we struck hosses and wagon1 ,snowed under a soft white mound1 ,upsot1 dead beat--but of little ,gabe ,no hide nor hair was found4 ,and here all hope soured on me1 ,of my fellow-critters' aid-- ,i jest flopped down on my marrow bones1 ,crotch deep in the snow1 and prayed4 ,by this the torches was played out1 ,and me and ,isrul ,parr ,went off for some wood to a sheepfold ,that he said was somewhar thar4 ,we found it at last1 and a little shed ,where they shut up the lambs at night2 ,we looked in1 and seen them huddled thar1 ,so warm and sleepy and white4 ,and thar sat ,little ,breeches and chirped1 ,as peart as ever you see1 ,i want a chaw of terbacker1 ,and that's what's the matter with me4 ,how did he get thar8 ,angels4 ,he could never have walked in that storm1 ,they just scooped down and toted him ,to whar it was safe and warm2 ,and ,i think that saving a little child ,and bringing him to his own1 ,is a derned sight better business ,than loafing around the ,throne4 ,,footnote3 #gc ,by permission of ,mrs4 ,hay4 ,,the ,,low-,,backed ,,car ,,samuel ,,lover ,when first ,i saw sweet ,peggy1 ',twas on a market-day2 ,a low-backed car she drove1 and sat ,upon a truss of hay2 ,but when that hay was blooming grass1 ,and decked with flowers of spring1 ,no flower was there that could compare ,with the blooming girl ,i sing4 ,as she sat in the low-backed car1 ,the man at the turnpike bar ,never asked for the toll1 ,but just rubbed his owld poll1 ,and looked after the low-backed car4 ,in battle's wild commotion1 ,the proud and mighty ,mars ,with hostile scythes demands his tithes ,of death--in warlike cars2 ,while ,peggy1 peaceful goddess1 ,has darts in her bright eyes ,that knock men down in the market-town1 ,as right and left they fly2 ,while she sits in her low-backed car3 ,than battle more dangerous far-- ,for the doctor's art ,cannot cure the heart ,that is hit from that low-backed car4 ,sweet ,peggy round her cart1 sir1 ,has strings of ducks and geese1 ,but the scores of hearts she slaughters ,by far outnumber these2 ,while she among her poultry sits1 ,just like a turtle-dove1 ,well worth the cage1 ,i do engage1 ,of the blooming god of love2 ,while she sits in her low-backed car1 ,the lovers come near and far1 ,and envy the chicken ,that ,peggy is pickin' ,as she sits in her low-backed car4 ,oh6 ,i'd rather own that car1 sir1 ,with ,peggy by my side1 ,than a coach and four1 and gold galore1 ,and a lady for my bride2 ,for the lady would sit forninst me1 ,on a cushion made with taste1 ,while ,peggy would sit beside me1 ,with my arm around her waist1 ,while we drove in the low-backed car ,to be married by ,father ,maher2 ,oh6 my heart would beat high ,at her glance and her sigh1 ,though it beat in a low-backed car4 ,,mammy',s ,,pickanin' ,,lucy ,,dean ,,jenkins ,now1 whah d'ye s'pose dat chile is8 ,my1 he's got a head6 ,he's a-hidin' frum his mammy ',case it's time to go to bed4 ,hyah1 you1 ,petah ,johnsing6 ,come inside dat fence4 ,i done tole you yes'day ,you didn't hab no sense4 ,what's dat8 ,a-waitin' fo' yo' daddy8 7,bress his little hea't67 ,why1 chile6 ,yo' daddy won't be comin' ,froo dat woodsy pa't ,at dis time ob de ebenin'4 ,don't you see dat moon8 ,dat's de sign dat spooks ',ll be a-trablin' soon4 ,i b'lieve ,i see 'em ,comin'--,massy me6 ,as sho' as you is breavin' ,dar's one behind dat tree6 ,ha6 ,ha6 ,i t'ought dat 'd bring him4 ,come hyah1 sweety hon'1 ,come to yo' ole mammy1 ,an' if dose spookies come ,an' want my pickaninny1 ,i'll swat 'em in de face2 ,i'll take dar flowin' ga'ments1 ,an' jest wipe up de place4 ,i'll take dat ar bu'nt hoe-cake1 ,an' hit 'em on de head1 ,till dey'll be glad to go away1 ,an' let my baby go to bed4 ,so1 don't cry no mo'1 my honey1 ,jes' close yo' little eye1 ,an' mammy'll rock ye in her a'ms1 ,an' sing de-- ,lullaby1 ,close yo' eye1 ,mammy's little dusky baby2 ,hush-a-bye1 ,close yo' eye1 ,mammy's little baby boy1 ,den hush-a-bye4 ,now1 what's de mattah1 honey8 ,ain't you neber gwine ter sleep8 ,dose spookies ain't a-comin'2 ,dey's gwine off down de street4 ,now shet yo' eyes up tight1 ,an' go right off to sleep2 ,an' to-morrow for yo' breakfus' ,you'll hab' possum for to eat4 ,so1 don't cry no mo'1 my honey1 ,jes' close yo' little eye1 ,while mammy rocks you in her a'ms ,an' sings de-- ,lullaby1 etc4 ,,mandalay ,,rudyard ,,kipling ,by the old ,moulmein ,pagoda1 lookin' eastward to the sea1 ,there's a ,burma girl a-settin'1 an' ,i know she thinks o' me2 ,for the wind is in the palm-trees1 an' the temple-bells they say3 ,come you back1 you ,british soldier2 come you back to ,mandalay6 ,come you back to ,mandalay1 ,where the old ,flotilla lay3 ,can't you 'ear their paddles chuckin' from ,rangoon to ,mandalay8 ,on the road to ,mandalay1 ,where the flyin'-fishes play1 ,an' the dawn comes up like thunder outer ,china 'crost the ,bay6 ',er petticut was yaller an' 'er little cap was green1 ,an' 'er name was ,supi-yaw-lat--jes' the same as ,theebaw's ,queen1 ,an' ,i seed her fust a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot1 ,an' a-wastin' ,christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot3 ,bloomin' idol made o' mud-- ,wot they called the ,great ,gawd ,budd-- ,plucky lot she cared for idols when ,i kissed 'er where she stud6 ,on the road to ,mandalay-- ,when the mist was on the rice fields an' the sun was droppin' slow1 ,she'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing ,kullalo-lo6 ,with 'er arm upon my shoulder an' her cheek agin my cheek ,we useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak4 ,elephints a-pilin' teak ,in the sludgy1 squdgy creek1 ,where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak6 ,on the road to ,mandalay-- ,but that's all shove be'ind me--long ago an' fur away1 ,an' there ain't no 'buses runnin' from the ,benk to ,mandalay2 ,an' ,i'm learnin' 'ere in ,london what the ten-year sodger tells3 ,if you've 'eard the ,east a-callin1' why1 you won't 'eed nothin' else4 ,no6 you won't 'eed nothin' else ,but them spicy garlic smells ,an' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells6 ,on the road to ,mandalay-- ,i am sick o' wastin' leather on these gutty pavin'-stones1 ,an' the blasted ,henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones2 ,tho' ,i walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer ,chelsea to the ,strand1 ,an' they talks a lot o' lovin'1 but wot do they understand8 ,beefy face an' grubby 'and-- ,law6 wot do they understand8 ,i've a neater1 sweeter maiden in a cleaner1 greener1 land6 ,on the road to ,mandalay-- ,ship me somewheres east of ,suez where the best is like the worst1 ,where there aren't no ,ten ,commandments1 an' a man can raise a thirst2 ,for the temple-bells are callin'1 an' it's there that ,i would be-- ,by the old ,moulmein ,pagoda1 lookin' lazy at the sea-- ,on the road to ,mandalay1 ,where the old ,flotilla lay1 ,with our sick beneath the awnings when we went to ,mandalay6 ,on the road to ,mandalay1 ,where the flyin'-fishes play1 ,an' the dawn comes up like thunder outer ,china 'crost the ,bay6 ,,mister ,,coon ,,and ,,mister ,,rabbit#gd ,,joel ,,chandler ,,harris ,well one time ,mr4 ,rabbit an' ,mr4 ,coon live close ter one anudder in de same neighborhoods4 ,how dey does now ,i ain't a-tellin' you1 but in dem days dey wa'n't no hard feelin's 'twixt um4 ,dey jest went along like two ole cronies4 ,mr4 ,rabbit he was a fisherman an' ,mr4 ,coon he was a fisherman4 ,but ,mr4 ,rabbit he kotch fish1 an' ,mr4 ,coon he fished for frogs4 ,mr4 ,rabbit he had mighty good luck1 and ,mr4 ,coon he had mighty bad luck4 ,mr4 ,rabbit he got fat an' slick an' ,mr4 ,coon he got po' an' sick4 ,hit went on dis-a-way tell one day ,mr4 ,coon met ,mr4 ,rabbit in de big road4 ,dey shook han's dey did1 an' den ,mr4 ,coon he 'low3 ,brer ,rabbit1 whar you git sech a fine chance er fish8 ,mr4 ,rabbit laugh an' say1 ,i kotch 'em outen de river1 ,brer ,coon4 ,all ,i got to do is to bait my hook1 sezee4 ,den ,mr4 ,coon he shake his head an' 'low1 ,den how come ,i ain't ketch no frogs8 ,mr4 ,rabbit sat down in de road an' scratched fer fleas an' den he 'low1 ,it's kaze you done make um all mad1 ,brer ,coon4 ,one time in de dark er de moon1 you slipped down ter de branch an' kotch de ole king frog1 an' ever sence dat time1 w'enever you er passin' by1 you kin year um sing out1 fus' one an' den anudder1 ',yer he come6 ,dar he goes6 ,hit 'im in de eye6 ,hit 'im in de eye6 ,mash 'im an' smash 'im6 ,mash 'im an' smash 'im6' ,yasser1 dat w'at dey say4 ,i year um constant1 ,brer ,coon1 an' dat des w'at dey say4 ,den ,mr4 ,coon up an' say1 ,ef dat de way dey gwine on1 how de name er goodness kin ,i ketch um1 ,brer ,rabbit4 ,i bleege ter have sumfin ter eat fer me an' my fambly connection4 ,mr4 ,rabbit sorter grin in de corner ob de mouf an' den he say1 ,well1 ,brer ,coon1 bein' ez you bin so sociable 'long wid me1 an' ain't never showed your toofies w'en ,i pull yo' tail1 ,i'll des whirl in an' hep you out4 ,mr4 ,coon he say1 ,thanky1 thanky1 ,brer ,rabbit6 ,mr4 ,rabbit hang his fish on a tree lim an' say1 ,now1 ,brer ,coon1 you bleege ter do dis lik' ,i tell you4 ,mr4 ,coon 'lowed dat he would ef de good ,lawd spared 'im4 ,den ,mr4 ,rabbit say1 ,now1 ,brer ,coon1 you des rack down yonder an' git on de big san-bar 'twix' de river an' de branch4 ,wen you git dar you mus' stagger like you sick1 an' den you mus' whirl roun' an' roun' an' drap down lak you dead4 ,arter you drap down1 you mus' sorter jerk yo' legs once er twice an' den you mus' lay right still4 ,if fly light on yo' nose let 'im stay dar4 ,don't move2 don't wink yo' eye2 don't switch yo' tail4 ,des lay right dar an' 'twont' be long for yo' hear from me4 ,yit don't yo' move till ,i give de word4 ,mr4 ,coon he paced off he did1 an' done des like ,mr4 ,rabbit told him4 ,he staggered roun' on de san'-bank1 an' den he drapped down dead4 ,atter so long a time1 ,mr4 ,rabbit come lopin' 'long1 an' soon's he got dar he squall out1 ,coon dead6 ,dis rousted de frogs1 an' dey stuck dey heads up fer ter see w'at all de rippet was about4 ,one great big green frog up an' holler1 ,w'at de matter8 ,w'at de matter8 ,he talk like he got bad cold4 ,mr4 ,rabbit he 'low1 ,coon dead6 ,frog say1 ,don't believe it6 ,don't believe it6 ,n'er frog say1 ,yes1 he is6 ,yes1 he is6 ,little bit er one say1 ,no1 he ain't6 ,no1 he ain't6 ,dey keep on sputin till bimeby hit look like all de frogs in de neighborhood wuz dar4 ,mr4 ,rabbit look like he ain't a-kearin' what dey do er say4 ,he sot down dar in de san' like he gwine in moanin' fer ,mr4 ,coon4 ,de frogs kep' gittin' closer and closer4 ,mr4 ,coon he ain't move4 ,w'en a fly'd git on 'im1 ,mr4 ,rabbit he'd bresh 'im off4 ,bimeby he 'low1 ,ef you want ter git 'im outin de way1 now's you time1 cousin frogs4 ,des whirl in an' bury 'im1 deep in de san'4 ,big old frog say1 ,how we gwine ter do it8 ,how we gwine ter do it8 ,mr4 ,rabbit 'low1 ,dig de san' out from under 'im an' let 'im down in de hole4 ,den de frogs dey went ter work sure enough4 ,dey mus' 'a' been a hundred un um1 an' dey make dat san' fly4 ,mr4 ,coon he ain't move4 ,de frogs dey dig an' scratch in de san' tell atter while dey had a right smaht hole an' ,mr4 ,coon wuz down in dar4 ,bimeby ,big ,frog holler1 ,dis deep nuff8 ,dis deep nuff8 ,mr4 ,rabbit' low1 ,kin you jump out8 ,big ,frog say1 ,yes1 ,i kin6 ,yes1 ,i kin6 ,mr4 ,rabbit say1 ,den 'tain't deep nuff4 ,den de frogs dey dig an' dey dig tell bimeby ,big ,frog say1 ,dis deep nuff8 ,dis deep nuff8 ,mr4 ,rabbit 'low1 ,kin you jump out8 ,big ,frog say1 ,i des kin6 ,i des kin6 ,mr4 ,rabbit say1 ,dig it deeper4 ,all de frogs keep on diggin' tell bimeby ,big ,frog holler out1 ,dis deep nuff8 ,dis deep nuff8 ,mr4 ,rabbit 'low1 ,kin you jump out8 ,big ,frog say1 ,no1 ,i can't6 ,no1 ,i can't6 ,come he'p me6 ,come he'p me6 ,den ,mr4 ,rabbit bust out laffin' an' holler out1 ,rise up1 sandy1 an' git yo' meat4 ,an' ,mr4 ,coon riz4 ,,footnote3 #gd ,by permission of ,d4 ,appleton ,co4 ,,money ,,musk ,,benjamin ,f4 ,,taylor ,ah1 the buxom girls that helped the boys-- ,the nobler ,helens of humbler ,troys-- ,as they stripped the husks with rustling fold ,from eight-rowed corn as yellow as gold1 ,by the candle-light in pumpkin bowls1 ,and the gleams that showed fantastic holes ,in the quaint old lantern's tattooed tin1 ,from the hermit glim set up within2 ,by the rarer light in girlish eyes ,as dark as wells1 or as blue as skies4 ,i hear the laugh when the ear is red1 ,i see the blush with the forfeit paid1 ,the cedar cakes with the ancient twist1 ,the cider cup that the girls have kissed4 ,and ,i see the fiddler through the dusk ,as he twangs the ghost of ,money ,musk6 ,the boys and girls in a double row ,wait face to face till the magic bow ,shall whip the tune from the violin1 ,and the merry pulse of the feet begin4 ,in shirt of check1 and tallowed hair1 ,the fiddler sits in the bulrush chair ,like ,moses' basket stranded there ,on the brink of ,father ,nile4 ,he feels the fiddle's slender neck1 ,picks out the note1 with thrum and check2 ,and times the tune with nod and beck1 ,and thinks it a weary while4 ,all ready6 ,now he gives the call1 ,cries1 ,honor to the ladies6 ,all ,the jolly tides of laughter fall ,and ebb in a happy smile4 ,begin4 ,d-o-w-n comes the bow on every string1 ,first couple join right hands and swing6 ,as light as any blue-bird's wing ,swing once and a half times round4 ,whirls ,mary ,martin all in blue-- ,calico gown and stockings new1 ,and tinted eyes that tell you true1 ,dance all to the dancing sound4 ,she flits about big ,moses ,brown1 ,who holds her hands to keep her down ,and thinks her hair a golden crown1 ,and his heart turns over once6 ,his cheek with ,mary's breath is wet1 ,it gives a second somerset6 ,he means to win the maiden yet1 ,alas1 for the awkward dance6 ,your stoga boot has crushed my toe6 ,i'd rather dance with one-legged ,joe6 ,you clumsy fellow6 ,pass below6 ,and the first pair dance apart4 ,then ,forward six6 advance1 retreat1 ,like midges gay in sunbeam street4 ',tis ,money ,musk by merry feet ,and the ,money ,musk by heart6 ,three quarters round your partner swing6 ,across the set6 ,the rafters ring1 ,the girls and boys have taken wing ,and have brought their roses out6 ',tis ,forward six6 with rustic grace1 ,ah1 rarer far than--,swing to place6 ,than golden clouds of old point-lace ,they bring the dance about4 ,then clasping hands all--,right and left6 ,all swiftly weave the measure deft ,across the woof in loving weft1 ,and the ,money ,musk is done6 ,oh1 dancers of the rustling husk1 ,good night1 sweet hearts1 'tis growing dusk1 ,good night for aye to ,money ,musk1 ,for the heavy march begun6 ,,the ,,one-,,legged ,,goose#ge ,f4 ,,hopkinson ,,smith ,the ,colonel had been detained at his office1 but had sent word that ,i was to wait for him4 ,chad was serving the coffee4 ,my ,marsa ,john1 he remarked1 filling the cup with the smoking beverage1 never drank nuffin' but tea1 eben at de big dinners when all de gemmen had coffee in de little cups--dat's one ob 'em you's drinkin' out ob now2 dey ain't mo' 'an fo' on 'em left4 ,old marsa would have his pot of tea4 ,henny useter make it for him2 makes it now for ,miss ,nancy4 ,henny was a young gal den1 long 'fo' we was married4 ,henny b'longed to ,colonel ,lloyd ,barbour1 on de next plantation to ourn4 ,mo' coffee1 ,major8 ,i handed ,chad the empty cup4 ,he refilled it1 and went straight on without drawing breath4 ,wust scrape ,i eber got into wid old ,marsa ,john was ober ,henny4 ,i tell ye she was a harricane in dem days4 ,she come into de kitchen one time where ,i was helpin' git de dinner ready an' de cook had gone to de spring-house1 an' she says3 ',chad1 what ye cookin' dat smells so nice8' ',dat's a goose1' ,i says1 'cookin' for ,marsa ,john's dinner4 ,we got quality1' says ,i1 pintin' to de dinin'-room do'4 ',quality6' she says4 ',spec' ,i know what de quality is4 ,dat's for you and de cook4' ,wid dat she grabs a caarvin' knife from de table1 opens de do' ob de big oven1 cuts off a leg ob de goose1 an' dis'pears round de kitchen corner wid de leg in her mouf4 ',fo' ,i knowed whar ,i was ,marsa ,john come to de kitchen do' an' says1 ',gittin' late1 ,chad2 bring in de dinner4' ,you see1 ,major1 dey ain't no up an' down-stairs in de big house1 like it is yer2 kitchen an' dinin'-room all on de same flo'4 ,well1 sah1 ,i was scared to def1 but ,i tuk dat goose an' laid him wid de cut side down on de bottom of de pan 'fo' de cook got back1 put some dressin' an' stuffin' ober him1 an' shet de stove do'4 ,den ,i tuk de sweet potatoes an' de hominy an' put 'em on de table1 an' den ,i went back in de kitchen to git de baked ham4 ,i put on de ham an' some mo' dishes1 an' marsa says1 lookin' up3 ',i t'ought dere was a roast goose1 ,chad8' ',i ain't yerd nothin' 'bout no goose1' ,i says4 ',i'll ask de cook4' ,next minute ,i hyerd old marsa a-hollerin3 ',mammy ,jane1 ain't we got a goose8' ',lord-a-massy6 yes1 marsa4 ,chad1 you wu'thless nigger1 ain't you tuk dat goose out yit8' ',is we got a goose8' said ,i4 ',is we got a goose8 ,didn't you help pick it8' ,i see whar my hair was short1 an' ,i snatched up a hot dish from de hearth1 opened de oven do'1 an' slide de goose in jes as he was1 an' lay him down befo' ,marsa ,john4 ',now see what de ladies 'll have for dinner1' says ole marsa1 pickin' up his carvin' knife4 ',what'll you take for dinner1 ,miss8' says ,i4 ',baked ham8' ',no1' says she1 lookin' up to whar ,marsa ,john sat4 ',i think ,i'll take a leg ob dat goose4' ,well1 marsa cut off de leg an' put a little stuffin' an' gravy on wid a spoon1 an' says to me1 ',chad1 see what dat gemman 'll have4' ',what'll you take for dinner1 sah8' says ,i4 ',nice breast o' goose1 or slice o' ham8' ',no2 ,i think ,i'll take a leg ob dat goose4' ,i didn't say nuffin'1 but ,i knowed bery well he wa'n't a-gwine to git it4 ,but you oughter seen ole marsa lookin' for de udder leg ob dat goose6 ,he rolled him ober on de dish1 dis way an' dat way1 an' den he jabbed dat ole bone-handled carvin' fork in him an' hel' him up ober de dish1 an' looked under him an' on top ob him1 an' den he says1 kinder sad like3 ',chad1 whar is de udder leg ob dat goose8' ',it didn't hab none1' says ,i4 ',you mean to say dat de gooses on my plantation on'y got one leg8' ',some ob 'em has an' some ob 'em ain't4 ,you see1 marsa1 we got two kinds in de pond1 an' we was a little hurried to-day1 so ,mammy ,jane cooked dis one 'cause ,i cotched it fust4' ',well1' said he1 ',i'll settle wid ye after dinner4' ,well1 dar ,i was shiverin' an' shakin' in my shoes1 an' droppin' gravy1 an' spillin' de wine on de table-cloth1 ,i was dat shuck up2 an' when de dinner was ober he calls all de ladies an' gemmen1 an' says1 ',now come down to de duck-pond4 ,i'm gwine ter show dis nigger dat all de gooses on my plantation got mo' den one leg4' ,i followed 'long1 trapesin' after de whole kit an' b'ilin'1 an' when we got to de pond--here ,chad nearly went into a convulsion with suppressed laughter--dar was de gooses sittin' on a log in de middle of dat ole green goose-pond wid one leg stuck down--so--an' de udder tucked under de wing4 ,chad was now on one leg1 balancing himself by my chair1 the tears running down his cheeks4 ',dar1 marsa1' says ,i1 'don't ye see8 ,look at dat ole gray goose6 ,dat's de berry match ob de one we had to-day4' ,den de ladies all hollered an' de gemmen laughed so loud dey hyerd 'em at de big house4 ',stop1 you black scoun'rel6' ,marsa ,john says1 his face gittin' white an' he a-jerkin' his handkerchief from his pocket4 ',shoo6' ,major1 ,i hope to have my brains kicked out by a lame grasshopper if ebery one ob dem gooses didn't put down de udder leg6 ',now1 you lyin' nigger1' he says1 raisin' his cane ober my head1 ',i'll show you4' ',stop1 ,marsa ,john6' ,i hollered2 ''tain't fair1 'tain't fair4' ',why ain't it fair8' says he4 '',cause1' says ,i1 'you didn't say ,shoo6 to de goose what was on de table4' ,and did he thrash you8 ,marsa ,john8 ,no1 sah6 ,he laughed loud as anybody2 an' den dat night he says to me as ,i was puttin' some wood on de fire1 ',chad1 where did dat leg go8' ,an' so ,i ups an' tells him all about ,henny1 an' how ,i was 'fraid the gal would git whipped1 an' how she was on'y a-foolin'1 thinkin' it was my goose2 an' den old marsa look in de fire a long time1 an' den he says3 ',dat's ,colonel ,barbour's ,henny1 ain't it1 ,chad8' ',yes1 marsa1' says ,i4 ,well1 de nex' mawnin' ,marse ,john had his black hoss saddled1 an' ,i held de stir'up fur him to git on1 an' he rode ober to de ,barbour plantation an' didn't come back till plumb black night4 ,when he come up ,i held de lantern so ,i could see his face1 for ,i wa'n't easy in my mind all day2 but it was all bright an' shinin' same as a' angel's4 ',chad1' he says1 handin' me de bridle reins1 ',i bought yo' ,henny dis evenin' from ,colonel ,barbour1 she's comin' ober to-morrow1 an' you can bofe git married next ,sunday4' ,,footnote3 #ge ,used by permission of and arrangement with ,messrs4 ,houghton1 ,mifflin ,co41 ,boston1 ,mass41 publishers of the works of ,f4 ,hopkinson ,smith4 ,,the ,,pessimist#gf ,,ben ,f4 ,,king ,nothing to do but work1 ,nothing to eat but food1 ,nothing to wear but clothes ,to keep one from going nude4 ,nothing to breathe but air1 ,quick as a flash 'tis gone2 ,nowhere to fall but off1 ,nowhere to stand but on4 ,nothing to comb but hair1 ,nowhere to sleep but in bed1 ,nothing to weep but tears1 ,nothing to bury but dead4 ,nothing to sing but songs1 ,ah1 well1 alas6 alack6 ,nowhere to go but out1 ,nowhere to come but back4 ,nothing to see but sights1 ,nothing to quench but thirst1 ,nothing to have but what we've got1 ,thus thro' life we are cursed4 ,nothing to strike but a gait2 ,everything moves that goes4 ,nothing at all but common sense ,can ever withstand these woes4 ,,footnote3 #gf ,by permission of the author and ,forbes ,co41 publishers4 ,,schneider ,,sees ,,leah ,,anonymous ,i vant to dold you vat it is1 dot's a putty nice play4 ,de first dime dot you see ,leah1 she runs cross a pridge1 mit some fellers chasin' her mit putty big shticks4 ,dey ketch her right in de middle of der edge1 und der leader 7dot's de villen71 he sez of her1 ,dot it's better ven she dies1 und dot he coodent allow it dot she can lif4 ,und de oder fellers hollers out1 ,so ve vill2 ,gife her some deth2 ,kill her putty quick2 ,shmack her of der jaw1 und such dings2 und chust as dey vill kill her1 de priest says of dem1 ,don'd you do dot1 und dey shtop dot putty quick4 ,in der nexd seen1 dot ,leah meets ,rudolph 7dot's her feller7 in de voods4 ,before dot he comes in1 she sits of de bottom of a cross1 und she don'd look pooty lifely1 und she says1 ,rudolph1 how is dot1 dot you don'd come und see about me8 ,you didn't shpeak of me for tree days long4 ,i vant to dold you vot it is1 dot ain't some luf4 ,i don'd like dot4 ,vell1 ,rudolph he don'd was dere1 so he coodent sed something4 ,but ven he comes in1 she dells of him dot she lufs him orful1 und he says dot he guess he lufs her orful too1 und vants to know vood she leef dot place1 and go oud in some oder country mit him4 ,und she says1 ,i told you1 ,i vill2 und he says1 ,dot's all right1 und he tells her he vill meet her soon1 und dey vill go vay dogedder4 ,den he kisses her und goes oud1 und she feels honkey dory bout dot4 ,vell1 in der nexd seen1 ,rudolph's old man finds oud all about dot1 und he don'd feel putty goot2 und he says of ,rudolph1 ,vood you leef me1 und go mit dot gal8 und ,rudolph feels putty bad4 ,he don'd know vot he shall do4 ,und der old man he says1 ,i dold you vot ,i'll do4 ,de skoolmaster 7dot's de villen7 says dot she might dook some money to go vay4 ,now1 ,rudolph1 my poy1 ,i'll gif de skoolmaster sum money to gif do her1 und if she don'd dook dot money1 ,i'll let you marry dot gal4 ,ven ,rudolph hears dis1 he chumps mit joyness1 und says1 ,fader1 fader1 dot's all righd4 ,dot's pully4 ,i baed you anydings she voodent dook dot money4 ,vell1 de old man gif de skoolmaster de money1 und dells him dot he shall offer dot of her4 ,vell1 dot pluddy skoolmaster comes back und says dot ,leah dook dot gold right avay1 ven she didn't do dot4 ,den de old man says1 ,didn't ,i told you so8 und ,rudolph gits so vild dot he svears dot she can't haf someding more to do mit him4 ,so ven ,leah vill meet him in de voods1 he don'd vas dere1 und she feels orful1 und goes avay4 ,bime-by she comes up to ,rudolph's house4 ,she feels putty bad1 und she knocks of de door4 ,de old man comes oud1 und says1 ,got out of dot1 you orful vooman4 ,don'd you come round after my boy again1 else ,i put you in de dooms4 ,und she says1 ,chust let me see ,rudolph vonce1 und ,i vill vander avay4 ,so den ,rudolph comes oud1 und she vants to rush of his arms1 but dot pluddy fool voodent allow dot4 ,he chucks her avay1 und says1 ,don'd you touch me1 uf you please1 you deceitfulness gal4 ,i dold you vot it is1 dot looks ruff for dot poor gal4 ,und she is extonished1 und says1 ,vot is dis aboud dot8 ,und ,rudolph1 orful mad1 says1 ,got oudsiedt1 you ignomonous vooman4 ,und she feels so orful she coodent said a vord1 und she goes oud4 ,afterwards1 ,rudolph gits married to anoder gal in a shurch4 ,vell1 ,leah1 who is vandering eferyveres1 happens to go in dot shurchyard to cry1 chust at de same dime of ,rudolph's marriage1 vich she don'd know someding aboud4 ,putty soon she hears de organ1 und she says dere is some beeples gitten married1 und dot it vill do her unhappiness goot if she sees dot4 ,so she looks in de vinder1 und ven she sees who dot is1 my graciousness1 don'd she holler1 und shvears vengeance4 ,putty soon ,rudolph chumps oud indo der shurchyard to got some air4 ,he says he don't feel putty good4 ,putty soon dey see each oder1 und dey had a orful dime4 ,he says of her1 ,leah1 how is dot you been here8 ,und she says mit big scornfulness1 ,god oud of dot1 you beat4 ,how is dot1 you got cheek to talk of me afder dot vitch you hafe done8 ,den he says1 ,vell1 vot for you dook dot gold1 you false-hearded leetle gal8 und she says1 ,vot gold is dot8 ,i didn't dook some gold4 ,und he says1 ,don'd you dold a lie about dot6 ,she says slowfully1 ,i told you ,i didn't dook some gold4 ,vot gold is dot8 ,und den ,rudolph tells her all aboud dot1 und she says1 ,dot is a orful lie4 ,i didn't seen some gold2 und she adds mit much sarkasmness1 ,und you beliefed ,i dook dot gold4 ,dot's de vorst ,i efer heered4 ,now1 on accound of dot1 ,i vill gif you a few gurses4 ,und den she swears mit orful voices dot ,mister ,kain's gurse should git on him1 und dot he coodent never git any happiness eferyvere1 no matter vere he is4 ,den she valks off4 ,vell1 den a long dime passes avay1 und den you see ,rudolph's farm4 ,he has got a nice vife1 und a putiful leetle child4 ,putty soon ,leah comes in1 being shased1 as ushual1 by fellers mit shticks4 ,she looks like she didn't ead someding for two monds4 ,rudolph's vife sends off dot mop1 und ,leah gits avay again4 ,den dat nice leedle child comes oud1 und ,leah comes back2 und ven she sees dot child1 don'd she feel orful aboud dot1 und she says mit affectfulness1 ,come here1 leedle child1 ,i voodn'd harm you2 und dot nice leedle child goes righd up1 and ,leah chumps on her1 und grabs her in her arms1 und gries1 and kisses her4 ,oh6 my graciousness don'd she gry aboud dot4 ,you got to blow your noses righd avay4 ,i vant to dold you vat it is1 dot looks pully4 ,und den she says vile she gries1 ,leedle childs1 don'd you got some names8 ,und dot leedle child shpeaks oud so nice1 pless her leedle hard1 und says1 ,oh6 yes4 ,my name dot's ,leah1 und my papa tells me dot ,i shall pray for you efery nighd4 ,oh6 my goodnessness1 don'd ,leah gry orful ven she hears dot4 ,i dold you vat it is1 dot's a shplaindid ding4 ,und quick come dem tears in your eyes und you look up ad de vall1 so dot nobody can'd see dot1 und you make oud you don'd care aboud it4 ,but your eyes gits fulled up so quick dot you couldn'd keep dem in1 und de tears comes down of your face like a shnow storm1 und den you don'd care a tarn if efery body sees dot4 ,und ,leah kisses her und gries like dot her heart's broke1 und she dooks off dot gurse from ,rudolph und goes avay4 ,de child den dell her fader and muder aboud dot1 und dey pring her back4 ,den dot mop comes back und vill kill her again1 but she exposes dot skoolmaster1 dot villen1 und dot fixes him4 ,den she falls down in ,rudolph's arms1 und your eyes gits fulled up again1 und you can'd see someding more4 ,i like to haf as many glasses of beer as dere is gryin' chust now4 ,you couldn't help dot any vay4 ,und if ,i see a gal vot don'd gry in dot piece1 ,i voodn't marry dot gal1 efen if her fader owned a pig prewery4 ,und if ,i see a feller vot don'd gry1 ,i voodn't dook a trink of lager bier mit him4 ,vell1 afder de piece is oud1 you feel so bad1 und so goot1 dot you must ead a few pieces of hot stuff do drife avay der plues4 ,but ,i told you vat it is1 dot's a pully piece1 ,i baed you1 don'd it8 ,,the ,,superfluous ,,man ,,john ,g4 ,,saxe ,i long have been puzzled to guess1 ,and so ,i have frequently said1 ,what the reason could really be ,that ,i never have happened to wed2 ,but now it is perfectly clear ,i am under a natural ban2 ,the girls are already assigned-- ,and ,i'm a superfluous man6 ,those clever statistical chaps ,declare the numerical run ,of women and men in the world ,is ,twenty to ,twenty-and-one3 ,and hence in the pairing1 you see1 ,since wooing and wedding began1 ,for every connubial score ,they've got a superfluous man6 ,by twenties and twenties they go1 ,and giddily rush to their fate1 ,for none of the number1 of course1 ,can fail of the conjugal mate2 ,but while they are yielding in scores ,to nature's inflexible plan1 ,there's never a woman for me-- ,for ,i'm a superfluous man6 ,it isn't that ,i am a churl1 ,to solitude over-inclined1 ,it isn't that ,i am at fault ,in morals or manners or mind2 ,then what is the reason1 you ask1 ,i'm still with the bachelor clan8 ,i merely was numbered amiss-- ,and ,i'm a superfluous man6 ,it isn't that ,i am in want ,of personal beauty or grace1 ,for many a man with a wife ,is uglier far in the face4 ,indeed1 among elegant men ,i fancy myself in the van2 ,but what is the value of that1 ,when ,i'm a superfluous man8 ,although ,i am fond of the girls1 ,for aught ,i could ever discern1 ,the tender emotion ,i feel ,is one that they never return2 ',tis idle to quarrel with fate1 ,for1 struggle as hard as ,i can1 ,they're mated already1 you know1 ,and ,i'm a superfluous man6 ,no wonder ,i grumble at times1 ,with women so pretty and plenty1 ,to know that ,i never was born ,to figure as one of the ,twenty2 ,but yet1 when the average lot ,with critical vision ,i scan1 ,i think it may be for the best ,that ,i'm a superfluous man6 ,,the ,,usual ,,way ,,anonymous ,there was once a little man1 and his rod and line he took1 ,for he said1 ,i'll go a-fishing in the neighboring brook4 ,and it chanced a little maiden was walking out that day1 ,and they met--in the usual way4 ,then he sat him down beside her1 and an hour or two went by1 ,but still upon the grassy brink his rod and line did lie2 ,i thought1 she shyly whispered1 you'd be fishing all the day6 ,and he was--in the usual way4 ,so he gravely took his rod in hand and threw the line about1 ,but the fish perceived distinctly he was not looking out2 ,and he said1 ,sweetheart1 ,i love you1 but she said she could not stay1 ,but she did--in the usual way4 ,then the stars came out above them1 and she gave a little sigh ,as they watched the silver ripples like the moments running by2 ,we must say good-by1 she whispered by the alders old and gray1 ,and they did--in the usual way4 ,and day by day beside the stream1 they wandered to and fro1 ,and day by day the fishes swam securely down below1 ,till this little story ended1 as such little stories may1 ,very much--in the usual way4 ,and now that they are married1 do they always bill and coo8 ,do they never fret and quarrel1 like other couples do8 ,does he cherish her and love her8 does she honor and obey8 ,well1 they do--in the usual way4 ,,the ,,wedding ,,fee ,r4 ,m4 ,,streeter ,one morning1 fifty years ago1-- ,when apple trees were white with snow ,of fragrant blossoms1 and the air ,was spellbound with the perfume rare1-- ,upon a farm horse1 large and lean1 ,and lazy with its double load1 ,a sun-browned youth and maid were seen ,jogging along the winding road4 ,blue were the arches of the skies2 ,but bluer were that maiden's eyes4 ,the dewdrops on the grass were bright2 ,but brighter was the loving light ,that sparkled 'neath the long-fringed lid1 ,where those bright eyes of blue were hid2 ,adown the shoulders brown and bare ,rolled the soft waves of golden hair1 ,where1 almost strangled with the spray1 ,the sun1 a willing sufferer1 lay4 ,it was the fairest sight1 ,i ween1 ,that the young man had ever seen2 ,and with his features all aglow1 ,the happy fellow told her so6 ,and she without the least surprise ,looked on him with those heavenly eyes2 ,saw underneath that shade of tan ,the handsome features of a man2 ,and with a joy but rarely known ,she drew that dear face to her own1 ,and by her bridal bonnet hid-- ,i cannot tell you what she did6 ,so1 on they ride until among ,the new-born leaves with dewdrops hung1 ,the parsonage1 arrayed in white1 ,peers out1--a more than welcome sight4 ,then1 with a cloud upon his face1 ,what shall we do1 he turned to say1 ,should he refuse to take his pay ,from what is in the pillow-case8 ,and glancing down his eye surveyed ,the pillow-case before him laid1 ,whose contents reaching to its hem1 ,might purchase endless joy for them4 ,the maiden answers1 ,let us wait1 ,to borrow trouble where's the need8 ,then1 at the parson's squeaking gate ,halted the more than willing steed4 ,down from the horse the bridegroom sprung2 ,the latchless gate behind him swung4 ,the knocker of that startled door1 ,struck as it never was before1 ,brought the whole household pale with fright2 ,and there1 with blushes on his cheek1 ,so bashful he could hardly speak1 ,the farmer met their wondering sight4 ,the groom goes in1 his errand tells1 ,and1 as the parson nods1 he leans ,far o'er the window-sill and yells1 ,come in6 ,he says he'll take the beans6 ,oh6 how she jumped6 ,with one glad bound1 ,she and the bean-bag reached the ground4 ,then1 clasping with each dimpled arm ,the precious product of the farm1 ,she bears it through the open door2 ,and1 down upon the parlor floor1 ,dumps the best beans vines ever bore4 ,ah6 happy were their songs that day1 ,when man and wife they rode away4 ,but happier this chorus still ,which echoed through those woodland scenes3 ,god bless the priest of ,whitinsville6 ,god bless the man who took the beans6 ,,when ,,malindy ,,sings#gg ,,paul ,,laurence ,,dunbar ,g'way an' quit dat noise1 ,miss ,lucy-- ,put dat music book away2 ,what's de use to keep on tryin'8 ,ef you practice twell you're gray1 ,you cain't sta't no notes a-flyin' ,lak de ones dat rants and rings ,f'om de kitchen to de big woods ,when ,malindy sings4 ,you ain't got de nachel o'gans ,fu' to make de soun' come right1 ,you ain't got de tunes an' twistin's ,fu' to make it sweet an' light4 ,tell you one thing now1 ,miss ,lucy1 ,an' ,i'm tellin' you fu' true1 ,when hit comes to raal right singin' ',tain't no easy thing to do4 ,easy 'nough fu' folks to hollah1 ,lookin' at de lines an' dots1 ,when dey ain't no one kin sense it1 ,an' de chune comes in1 in spots2 ,but fu' real melojous music1 ,dat jes' strikes yo' hea't and clings1 ,jes' you stan' an' listen wif me ,when ,malindy sings4 ,ain't you nevah hyeahd ,malindy8 ,blessed soul1 tek up de cross6 ,look hyeah1 ain't you jokin'1 honey8 ,well1 you don't know what you los'4 ,y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-wa'blin'1 ,robins1 la'ks1 an' all dem things1 ,hush dey moufs an' hides dey faces ,when ,malindy sings4 ,fiddlin' man jes' stop his fiddlin'1 ,lay his fiddle on de she'f2 ,mockin' bird quit tryin' to whistle1 ',cause he jes' so shamed hisse'f4 ,folks a-playin' on de banjo ,draps dey fingahs on de strings-- ,bless yo' soul--fu'gits to move 'em1 ,when ,malindy sings4 ,she jes' spreads huh mouf and hollahs1 ,come to ,jesus1 twell you hyeah ,sinnahs' tremblin' steps an' voices1 ,timid-lak1 a-drawin' neah2 ,den she tu'ns to ,rock of ,ages1 ,simply to de cross she clings1 ,an' you fin' yo' teahs a-drappin' ,when ,malindy sings4 ,who dat says dat humble praises ,wif de ,master nevah counts8 ,hush yo' mouf1 ,i hyeah dat music1 ,ez hit rises up an' mounts-- ,floatin' by de hills an' valleys1 ,way above dis buryin' sod1 ,ez hit makes its way to glory ,to de very gates of ,god6 ,oh1 hit's sweetah dan de music ,of an edicated band2 ,an' it's dearah dan de battle's ,song o' triumph in de lan'4 ,it seems holier dan evenin' ,when de solemn chu'ch-bell rings1 ,ez ,i sit an' calmly listen ,while ,malindy sings4 ,towsah1 stop dat ba'kin'1 hyeah me6 ,mandy1 mek dat chile keep still2 ,don't you hyeah de echoes callin'1 ,f'om de valley to de hill8 ,let me listen1 ,i can hyeah it1 ,th'oo de bresh of angel's wings1 ,sof' an' sweet1 ,swing ,low1 ,sweet ,chariot1 ,ez ,malindy sings4 ,,footnote3 #gg ,by permission of ,dodd1 ,mead ,co41 publishers4 ,from ,lyrics of the ,hearthside1 #ahii4 ,,when ,,the ,,cows ,,come ,,home ,,agnes ,e4 ,,mitchell ,with klingle1 klangle1 klingle1 ,way down the dusty dingle1 ,the cows are coming home2 ,now sweet and clear and faint and low1 ,the airy tinklings come and go1 ,like chimings from some far off tower1 ,or patterings of some ,april shower ,that makes the daisies grow2 ,ko-ling1 ko-lang1 kolinglelingle1 ',way down the darkening dingle ,the cows come slowly home2 ,and old-time friends and twilight plays1 ,and starry nights and sunny days1 ,come trooping up the misty ways ,when the cows come home4 ,with jingle1 jangle1 jingle1 ,soft tunes that sweetly mingle1 ,the cows are coming home4 ,malvine and ,pearl and ,florimel1 ,dekamp1 ,redrose and ,gretchen ,schnell1 ,queen ,bell and ,sylph and ,spangled ,sue-- ,across the fields ,i hear her loo-oo ,and clang her silver bell2 ,goling1 golang1 golinglelingle1 ,with faint far sounds that mingle1 ,the cows come slowly home2 ,and mother-songs of long-gone years1 ,and baby joys and childish tears1 ,and youthful hopes and youthful fears1 ,when the cows come home4 ,with ringle1 rangle1 ringle1 ,by twos and threes and single ,the cows are coming home4 ,through violet air we see the town ,and the summer sun a slipping down1 ,and the maple in the hazel glade ,throws down the path a longer shade1 ,and the hills are growing brown2 ,to-ring1 to-rang1 to-ringleringle1 ,by threes and fours and single ,the cows are coming home2 ,the same sweet sound of wordless psalm1 ,the same sweet ,june-day rest and calm1 ,the same sweet scent of bud and balm1 ,when the cows come home4 ,with tinkle1 tankle1 tinkle1 ,through fern and periwinkle ,the cows are coming home2 ,a-loitering in the checkered stream ,where the sun-rays glance and gleam1 ,clarine1 ,peachbloom and ,phoebe ,phillis ,stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies ,in a drowsy dream2 ,to-link1 to-lank1 to-linklelinkle1 ,o'er banks with butter cups a-twinkle1 ,the cows come slowly home2 ,and up through memory's deep ravine ,come the brook's old song and its old-time sheen1 ,and the crescent of the silver queen1 ,when the cows come home4 ,with klingle1 klangle1 klingle1 ,with loo-oo and moo-oo and jingle ,the cows are coming home2 ,and over there in ,merlin hill1 ,hear the plaintive cry of the whip-poor-will2 ,the dew drops lie on the tangled vines1 ,and over the poplars ,venus shines1 ,and over the silent mill2 ,ko-ling1 ko-lang1 kolinglelingle ,with ting-a-ling and jingle ,the cows come slowly home2 ,let down the bars1 let in the train ,of long-gone songs1 and flowers and rain1 ,for dear old times come back again1 ,when the cows come home4 ,v ,,dramatic ,,not ,,in ,,the ,,drama ,,the ,,confessional ,,anonymous ',twas twilight1 and the early lighted lamps ,were flickering down into the ,arno's tide ,while yet the daylight lingered in the skies1 ,silvering and paling1 when ,i saw him first4 ,i was returning from my work1 and paused ,upon the bridge of ,santa ,trinita ,to rest1 and think how fair our ,florence is4 ,and ,i remember1 o'er the hazy hills1 ,far1 far away1 how exquisitely fair ,the twilight seemed that night4 ,my heart was soft ,with tender longings1 misted with a dim1 ,sad pleasure as a mirror with the breath4 ,ah1 never will those feelings come again6 ,i was in a mood to take a stamp ,from any passing chance1 even like those clouds ,that caught the tenderest thrill of dying day1 ,when1 by some inward sense1 ,i know not what1 ,i felt that ,i was gazed at1 drawn away ,by eyes that had a strange magnetic will4 ,and so ,i turned from those far hills to see-- ,a stranger8 ,no2 even then he did not seem ,a stranger1 but as one ,i once had known1 ,not here in ,florence1 not in any place1 ,but somewhere in my spirit known and seen4 ,i felt his eyes were fixed upon me1 ,and a sweet1 serious smile was on his lips3 ,nor could ,i help but look and smile again4 ,i know not what it was went to and fro ,between us in that swift smile and glance4 ,we neither spoke2 ,but something went that thrilled me through and through4 ,and that quick clash of souls ,had struck a spark that set my soul on fire4 ,and ,i was happy1 oh1 so happy then6 ,it seemed as if this earth could never add ,one little drop more to the joy ,i owned1 ,for all that passionate torrent pent within ,my heart had found its utterance and response4 ,he was ,venetian1 and that radiant hair ,we black-haired girls so covet haloed round ,his sunny northern face and soft blue eyes4 ,i know not why he loved me--me1 so black1 ,with this black skin that every ,roman has1 ,with this black hair1 black eyes1 that ,i so hate4 ,why loved he not ,beata8 she is fair1 ,but yet he often swore to me ,beata's body ,was not worth one half my finger1 ,and then kissed me full upon the mouth as if to seal his oath2 ,ah6 glorious seal--,i feel those lips there now6 ,and on my forehead1 too1 one kiss still glows ,like a great star4 ,ah6 well6 those days are gone4 ,no6 no6 ,they are not gone2 ,i love him madly now4 ,i love him madly as ,i loved him then4 ,ah1 ,god6 how blissfully those days went by6 ,you could not fill a golden cup more full ,of rubied wine than was my heart with joy4 ,long mornings in his studio1 there ,i sat ,and heard his voice2 or1 when he did not speak1 ,i felt his presence like a rich perfume1 ,fill all my thoughts4 ,i was his model4 ,hours and hours ,i posed ,for him to paint his ,cleopatra1 fierce1 ,with her squared brows1 and full ,egyptian lips2 ,a great gold serpent on her rounded arm1 ,and a broad band of gold around her head4 ,at last the autumn came1 the stricken1 bleeding autumn4 ,something weighed upon his mind ,i could not understand4 ,i knew all was not right1 yet dared not ask4 ,at last few words made all things plain2 ,love1 ,i must go to ,venice4 ,must8 ,yes1 must4 ,then ,i go1 too4 ,no1 no2 ah1 ,nina1 no4 ,four weeks pass swiftly2 one short month1 and then ,i shall return to ,florence1 and to you4 ,vain were my words4 ,he went1 alas6 he went ,with all the sunshine1 and ,i wore alone ,the weary weeks out of that hateful month4 ,another month ,i waited1 nervous1 fierce ,with love's impatience4 ,when that month was gone ,my heart was all afire2 ,i could not stay4 ,consumed with jealous fears that wore me down ,into a fever1 necklace1 earrings--all ,i sold1 and on to ,venice rushed4 ,how long ,that dreary1 never-ending journey seemed6 ,i cursed the hills up which we slowly dragged1 ,the long1 flat plains of ,lombardy ,i cursed1 ,that kept me back from ,venice4 ,but at last in a black gondola ,i swam along ,the sea-built city1 and my heart was big ,with the glad thought that ,i was near to him4 ,yes1 gladness came upon me that soft night1 ,and jealousy was hushed1 and hope led on ,my dancing heart4 ,in vain ,i strove to curb ,my glad impatience--,i must see him then1 ,at once1 that very night2 ,i could not wait ,the tardy morning--'twas a year away4 ,i only gave the gondolier his name1 ,and said1 ,you know him8 ,yes4 ,then row me quick to where he is4 ,he bowed and on he went1 ,and as we swept along1 ,i leaned me out ,and dragged my burning fingers in the wave1 ,my hurried heart forecasting to itself our meeting1 ,what he'd say and think1 ,how ,i should hang upon his neck and say3 ,i could not longer live without you1 dear4 ,at last we paused4 ,the gondolier said1 ,this is the palace4 ,i was struck aghast4 ,it flared with lights1 that from the windows gleamed ,and trickled down into the black canal4 ,stop6 stop6 ,i cried2 'tis some mistake4 ,why are these lights8 ,this palace is not his4 ,he owns no palace4 ,pardon1 answered he1 ,i fancied the signora wished to see ,the marriage festa--and all ,venice knows ,the bride receives to-night4 ,what bride1 whose bride8 ,i asked1 impatient4 ,count ,alberti's bride1 ,whose else8 he answered1 with a shrug4 ,my heart1 ,from its glad1 singing height1 dropped like a lark ,shot dead1 at these few words4 ,the whole world reeled1 ,and for a moment ,i was crushed and stunned4 ,then came the wild revulsion of despair2 ,then1 calm more dreadful than the fiercest pain4 ,row me to the steps1 ,i said4 ,i leaped ,on their wet edge1 and stared in at the door ,where all was hurry1 rush1 and flare of light4 ,my eyes ran1 lightning1 zigzag1 through the crowd ,in search of him--he was not there4 ,ah1 ,god6 ,i breathed4 ,he was not there6 ,i inly cursed ,my unbelief1 and turned me round to go4 ,there was a sudden murmur near the door1 ,and ,i beheld him--walking at her side4 ,oh6 cursed be the hour ,i saw that sight1 ,and cursed be the place6 ,i saw those eyes ,that used to look such passion into mine ,turned with the selfsame look to other eyes1 ,yes1 light blue eyes1 that upward gazed at him4 ,i could not bear their bliss4 ,i scarcely knew what happened then2 ,i knew ,i felt for the stiletto in my vest ,with purpose that was half mechanical1 ,as if a demon used my hand for his4 ,i felt the red blood singing through my brain1 ,i struck--before me1 at my feet1 she fell4 ,who was the queen then8 ,ah6 your rank and wealth1 ,your pearls and splendors--what did they avail ,against the sharp stiletto's little point8 ,you should have thought of that before you dared-- ,you had all the world beside--to steal ,the only treasure that the ,roman girl e'er had4 ,you will not smile again as then you smiled4 ,thank ,god1 you'll never smile again for him6 ,i was avenged1 avenged1 until ,i saw ,the dreadful look he gave me as he turned ,from her dead face and looked in mine4 ,ah1 ,god6 ,it haunts me1 scares me1 will not let me sleep4 ,when will he come and tell me he forgives ,and loves me still8 ,oh1 bid him come1 ,come quickly1 come and let me die in peace4 ,i could not help it2 ,i was mad2 ,but ,i repent1 ,i suffer2 he at least ,should pity and forgive4 ,oh1 make him come ,and say he loves me1 and then let me die4 ,i shall be ready then to die2 but now ,i cannot think of ,god2 my heart is hell1 ,until ,i know he loves me still4 ,,jean ,,valjean ,,and ,,the ,,good ,,bishop#gh ,,victor ,,hugo ,early in the month of ,october1 #ahae1 about an hour before sunset1 a man who was traveling on foot1 entered the little town of ,digne1 ,france4 ,it would be difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance4 ,he was a man of medium stature1 thick-set and robust4 ,he might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old4 ,a cap with a drooping leather visor partly concealed his face1 which1 burned and tanned by the sun and wind1 was dripping with perspiration4 ,he wore a cravat which was twisted into a long string2 trousers of blue drilling worn and threadbare1 and an old gray tattered blouse1 patched on one of the elbows with a bit of green cotton cloth1 sewed on with a twine string4 ,on his back1 a soldier's knapsack1 well buckled and perfectly new2 in his hand1 an enormous knotty stick4 ,iron-shod shoes enveloped his stockingless feet4 ,no one knew him4 ,he was evidently a chance passer-by1 but nevertheless he directed his footsteps toward the village inn 7the best in the country-side71 and entered the kitchen4 ,the host1 on hearing the door open1 addressed him without lifting his eyes from the stove4 ,what is it this morning8 ,food and lodging4 ,nothing easier--by paying for it4 ,i have money1 ,i can pay4 ,in that case we are at your service4 ,when will dinner be ready8 ,immediately4 ,while the newcomer was depositing his knapsack upon the floor1 the host tore off the corner of an old newspaper1 wrote a line or two on the margin and handed it to a lad standing near4 ,after whispering a few words in his ear1 the lad set off at a run toward the town hall4 ,in a few moments he returned1 bringing the paper4 ,the host read it attentively1 remained silent a moment and then took a step in the direction of the traveler4 ,i cannot receive you1 sir6 ,what6 ,are you afraid ,i won't pay you8 ,i have money--,i can pay4 ,you have money1 but ,i have no room4 ,well1 put me in the stable4 ,the horses occupy all the space there4 ,in the loft then--,but come1 we can settle that after dinner4 ,i cannot give you your dinner4 ,bah6 ,i'm hungry4 ,i have been on foot since sunrise and ,i wish to eat4 ,well1 ,i have nothing4 ,nothing--and all that8 ,all that is engaged by messieurs and wagoners1--twelve of them4 ,there's enough food there for twenty4 ,i tell you1 it is all engaged and paid for in advance4 ,well1 ,i'm at a public inn and hungry4 ,i shall remain4 ,stop6 ,do you want me to tell you who you are--you are ,jean ,valjean--,go6 ,the man dropped his head1 picked up his knapsack and took his departure4444 ,that evening the ,bishop of the little town of ,digne was sitting with his sister and housekeeper1 talking over his day's work among his parishioners1 when there came a violent knock at the door4 ,come in-- ,the door opened2 a man entered and without waiting for the ,bishop to speak1 he cried out--,see here--,my name is ,jean ,valjean4 ,i have been nineteen years in the galleys4 ,four days ago ,i was released and am now on my way to ,pontarlier4 ,this evening when ,i came into these parts1 ,i went to an inn and they turned me out4 ,i went to another and they said ,be gone4 ,i went to the prison2 the jailer would not take me in4 ,i went to a dog's kennel2 the dog bit me and drove me off as though he had been a man4 ,i went to the fields to sleep beneath the stars2 there were no stars4 ,i returned to the city4 ,yonder1 in the square1 a good woman tapped me on the shoulder and told me to knock here1 and ,i have knocked4 ,what is this place8 ,do you keep an inn8 ,are you willing that ,i should remain8 ,ah1 ,madam ,magloire1 said the ,bishop1 you will set another place4 ,no1 that's not it4 ,i'm a galley-slave--a convict--,here's my yellow passport1 read that1 but no--,i can read1 ,i learned in the galleys4 ,reads4 ',jean ,valjean1 discharged convict1 has been nineteen years in the galleys4 ,five years for burglary and theft and fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four different occasions4 ,he--is--a very--dangerous--man'--,there1 that's what bars me out4 ,will you give me something to eat and a bed8 ,have you a stable8 ,madam ,magloire1 you will put white sheets on the bed in the alcove--,now sit down1 sir1 and warm yourself4 ,we will sup in a few moments and your bed will be prepared while we are supping4 ,what1 you call me sir--,you do not drive me out8 ,a bed1 with sheets1 like the rest of the world8 ,it has been nineteen years since ,i slept in a bed4 ,pardon me1 monsieur inn-keeper1--what is your name8 ,i am only an old priest who lives here4 ,then you will not demand my money of me8 ,no--keep your money4 ,how much have you8 ,one hundred and nine francs and fifteen sous4 ,how long did it take you to earn that8 ,nineteen years4 ,nineteen years6 ,madam ,magloire1 you will place the silver fork and spoon as near the fire as possible4 ,the north wind blows harsh on the ,alps to-night4 ,you must be cold1 sir4 ,ah1 ,monsieur le ,cure1 you do not despise me8 ,you receive me into your house8 ,you light your candles for me8 ,yet ,i have not concealed from you who ,i am4 ,you need not tell me who you are4 ,this is not my house4 ,this is the house of ,jesus ,christ4 ,that door does not ask of him who enters1 whether he has a name1 but whether he has a grief4 ,you suffer1 you are hungry1 you are welcome4 ,but do not thank me2 do not say that ,i receive you into my house4 ,you are more at home here than ,i am4 ,everything in this house belongs to you4 ,besides1 what need have ,i to know your name1 for ,i knew that before you told me4 ,what6 ,you knew what ,i was called8 ,yes1 you are called 'my brother4' ,oh--stop6 ,i--was very hungry when ,i came in here1 but now--my--my hunger is all gone4 ,oh--you are--so--good--to me4 ,you have suffered much4 ,you have come from a very sad place--but listen6 ,there will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of one repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men4 ,if you emerge from that place with thoughts of evil and wrath against mankind1 you are to be pitied2 but if you emerge with thoughts of peace and good will1 you are more deserving than any of us4 ,but now1 ,monsieur1 since you have supped1 ,i will conduct you to your room4 ,this is your room1 sir4 ,may you pass a good night1 and to-morrow before you leave us you must drink a cup of warm milk4 ,ah1 is this true8 ,do you lodge me close to yourself like this8 ,how do you know that ,i am not a murderer8 ,that is the concern of the good ,god4 ,good night1 brother4 ,good night4 ,,footnote3 #gh ,an adaptation from ,les ,miserables1 by ,lucy ,dean ,jenkins4 ,,lasca ,,anonymous ,i want free life1 and ,i want fresh air2 ,and ,i sigh for the canter after the cattle1 ,the crack of the whips like shots in a battle1 ,the mellay of horns and hoofs and heads ,that wars and wrangles and scatters and spreads2 ,the green beneath and the blue above1 ,and dash and danger1 and life and love4 ,and ,lasca6 ,lasca used to ride ,on a mouse-gray mustang close to my side1 ,with blue serape and bright-belled spur2 ,i laughed with joy as ,i looked at her4 ,little knew she of books or of creeds2 ,an ,ave ,maria sufficed her needs2 ,little she cared1 save to be by my side1 ,to ride with me1 and ever to ride1 ,from ,san ,saba's shore to ,lavaca's tide4 ,she was as bold as the billows that beat1 ,she was as wild as the breezes that blow2 ,from her little head to her little feet ,she was swayed in her suppleness to and fro ,by each gust of passion2 a sapling pine1 ,that grows on the edge of a ,kansas bluff1 ,and wars with the wind when the weather is rough ,is like this ,lasca1 this love of mine4 ,she would hunger that ,i might eat1 ,would take the bitter and leave me the sweet2 ,but once1 when ,i made her jealous for fun1 ,at something ,i'd whispered1 or looked1 or done1 ,one ,sunday in ,san ,antonio1 ,to a glorious girl on the ,alamo1 ,she drew from her belt a dear little dagger1 ,and--sting of a wasp6--it made me stagger6 ,an inch to the left1 or an inch to the right1 ,and ,i shouldn't be maundering here to-night2 ,but she sobbed1 and1 sobbing1 so swiftly bound ,her torn rebosa about the wound1 ,that ,i quite forgave her4 ,scratches don't count ,in ,texas1 down by the ,rio ,grande4 ,her eye was brown--a deep1 deep brown-- ,her hair was darker than her eye2 ,and something in her smile and frown1 ,curled crimson lip and instep high1 ,showed that there ran in each blue vein1 ,mixed with the milder ,aztec strain1 ,the vigorous vintage of old ,spain4 ,she was alive in every limb ,with feeling1 to the finger tips2 ,and when the sun is like a fire1 ,and sky one shining1 soft sapphire1 ,one does not drink in little sips4 ,the air was heavy1 the night was hot1 ,i sat by her side1 and forgot--forgot ,the herd that were taking their rest1 ,forgot that the air was close opprest1 ,that the ,texas norther comes sudden and soon1 ,in the dead of night1 or the blaze of noon-- ,that once let the herd at its breath take fright1 ,nothing on earth can stop the flight2 ,and woe to the rider1 and woe to the steed1 ,who falls in front of their mad stampede6 ,was that thunder8 ,i grasped the cord ,of my swift mustang without a word4 ,i sprang to the saddle1 and she clung behind4 ,away6 on a hot chase down the wind6 ,but never was fox-hunt half so hard ,and never was steed so little spared2 ,for we rode for our lives4 ,you shall hear how we fared1 ,in ,texas1 down by the ,rio ,grande4 ,the mustang flew1 and we urged him on2 ,there was one chance left1 and you have but one1 ,halt6 jump to the ground1 and shoot your horse2 ,crouch under his carcase1 and take your chance1 ,and if the steers in their frantic course ,don't batter you both to pieces at once1 ,you may thank your star2 if not1 good-by ,to the quickening kiss and the long-drawn sigh1 ,and the open air and the open sky1 ,in ,texas1 down by the ,rio ,grande6 ,the cattle gained on us1 and1 just as ,i felt ,for my old six-shooter behind in my belt1 ,down came the mustang1 and down came we1 ,clinging together1 and--what was the rest8 ,a body that spread itself on my breast4 ,two arms that shielded my dizzy head1 ,two lips that hard on my lips were prest2 ,then came thunder in my ears1 ,as over us surged the sea of steers1 ,blows that beat blood into my eyes1 ,and when ,i could rise-- ,lasca was dead6 ,i gouged out a grave a few feet deep1 ,and there in ,earth's arms ,i laid her to sleep2 ,and there she is lying1 and no one knows2 ,and the summer shines and the winter snows2 ,for many a day the flowers have spread ,a pall of petals over her head2 ,and the little gray hawk hangs aloft in the air1 ,and the sly coyote trots here and there1 ,and the black snake glides and glitters and slides ,into a rift in a cotton-wood tree2 ,and the buzzard sails on1 ,and comes and is gone1 ,stately and still like a ship at sea2 ,and ,i wonder why ,i do not care ,for the things that are like the things that were4 ,does half my heart lie buried there ,in ,texas1 down by the ,rio ,grande8 ,,michael ,,strogoff1 ,,courier ,,of ,,the ,,czar ,,jules ,,verne ,russia was threatened by a ,tartar invasion4 ,the commander of the ,russian troops was the ,czar's brother1 the ,grand ,duke1 now stationed at ,irkutsk4 ,suddenly all communication between him and the ,czar was cut off by the enemy1 under the leadership of ,ivan ,ogareff1 a traitor1 who had sworn to betray ,russia and to kill the ,grand ,duke4 ,it became necessary to send a messenger to the ,grand ,duke to warn him of his danger1 and ,michael ,strogoff was chosen for that purpose4 ,he was brought before the ,czar1 who looked this magnificent specimen of manhood full in the face4 ,then3 ,thy name8 ,michael ,strogoff1 sire4 ,thy rank8 ,captain in the ,corps of ,couriers to the ,czar4 ,thou dost know ,siberia8 ,i am a ,siberian4 ,a native of--8 ,omsk1 sire4 ,hast thou relations there8 ,yes1 sire1 my aged mother4 ,the ,czar suspended his questions for a moment2 then pointed to a letter which he held in his hand3 ,here is a letter which ,i charge thee1 ,michael ,strogoff1 to deliver into the hands of the ,grand ,duke1 and to no one but him4 ,i will deliver it1 sire4 ,the ,grand ,duke is at ,irkutsk4 ,thou wilt have to traverse a rebellious country1 invaded by ,tartars1 whose interest it will be to intercept this letter4 ,i will traverse it4 ,above all1 beware of the traitor1 ,ivan ,ogareff1 who will perhaps meet thee on the way4 ,i will beware of him4 ,michael ,strogoff1 take this letter4 ,on it depends the safety of all ,siberia1 and perhaps the life of my brother1 the ,grand ,duke4 7,hands him letter47 ,this letter shall be delivered to ,his ,highness1 the ,grand ,duke4 ,go1 thou1 for ,god1 for the ,czar1 and for your native land4 ,that very night ,michael ,strogoff started on his perilous journey4 ,his path was constantly beset with dangers1 but not until he reached ,omsk did his greatest trial come4 ,he had feared that he might see his mother in passing through the town4 ,they stopped only for dinner and the danger was almost past1 when1 just as they were leaving the posting-house to renew their journey1 suddenly a cry made him tremble--a cry which penetrated to the depths of his soul--and these two words rushed into his ear1 ,my son6 ,his mother1 the old woman ,marfa1 was before him6 ,trembling she smiled upon him and stretched forth her arms to him4 ,michael ,strogoff stepped forward2 he was about to throw himself--when the thought of duty1 the serious danger to himself and mother1 in this unfortunate meeting1 stopped him1 and so great was his self-command that not a muscle of his face moved4 ,there were twenty people in the public room1 and among them were perhaps spies1 and was it not known that the son of ,marfa ,strogoff belonged to the ,corps of ,couriers to the ,czar8 ,michael ,strogoff did not move4 ,michael6 cried his mother4 ,who are you1 my good woman8 ,who am ,i8 ,dost thou no longer know thy mother8 ,you are mistaken2 a resemblance deceives you4 ,marfa went up to him1 and looking straight into his eyes1 said1 ,art thou not the son of ,peter and ,marfa ,strogoff8 ,michael would have given his life to have locked his mother in his arms4 ,but if he yielded now1 it was all over with him1 with her1 with his mission1 with his oath6 ,completely master of himself1 he closed his eyes that he might not see the inexpressible anguish of his mother4 ,i do not know1 in truth1 what it is you say1 my good woman4 ,michael6 ,my name is not ,michael4 ,i never was your son6 ,i am ,nicholas ,horparoff1 a merchant of ,irkutsk1 and suddenly he left the room1 while for the last time the words echoed in his ears4 ,my son6 ,my son6 ,michael ,strogoff remembered--,for ,god1 for the ,czar1 and for my native land1 and he had by a desperate effort gone4 ,he did not see his old mother1 who had fallen back almost inanimate on a bench4 ,but when the ,postmaster hastened to assist her1 the aged woman raised herself4 ,suddenly the thought occurred to her3 ,she denied by her own son6 ,it was impossible6 ,as for being herself deceived1 it was equally impossible4 ,it was certainly her son whom she had just seen2 and if he had not recognized her1 it was because he would not1 because he ought not1 because he had some strong reason for acting thus4 ,and then1 her mother feelings arising within her1 she had only one thought3 ,can ,i unwittingly have ruined him8 ,i am mad1 she said to her interrogators4 ,this young man was not my son2 he had not his voice4 ,let us think no more of it4 ,if we do1 ,i shall end in finding him everywhere4 ,this occurrence1 however1 came to the knowledge of ,ivan ,ogareff1 who was stationed in the town4 ,to obtain possession of any official message1 which1 if delivered1 would frustrate his plans1 and to detain the courier was his great desire4 ,he succeeded in arresting ,michael ,strogoff1 and then sent for ,marfa to appear before him4 ,marfa1 standing before ,ivan ,ogareff1 drew herself up1 crossed her arms on her breast1 and waited4 ,you are ,marfa ,strogoff8 asked ,ogareff4 ,yes4 ,do you retract what you said a few hours ago8 ,no4 ,then you do not know that your son1 ,michael ,strogoff1 ,courier to the ,czar1 has passed through ,omsk8 ,i do not know4 ,and the man whom you thought you recognized as your son1 was not your son8 ,he was not my son4 ,and since then1 have you seen him among the prisoners8 ,no4 ,if he were pointed out to you1 would you recognize him8 ,no4 ,listen6 ,your son is here1 and you shall immediately point him out to me4 ,no4 ,all these men will file before you1 and if you do not show me ,michael ,strogoff1 you shall receive as many blows from the knout as men shall have passed before you4 ,on an order from ,ogareff1 the prisoners filed one by one past ,marfa1 who was immovable as a statue1 and whose face expressed only perfect indifference4 ,michael was to all appearances unmoved1 but the palms of his hands bled under the nails which were pressed into the flesh4 ,marfa1 seized by two soldiers1 was forced on her knees on the ground4 ,her dress torn off1 left her back bare4 ,a saber was placed before her breast at a few inches' distance4 ,if she bent beneath her sufferings1 her breast would be pierced by the sharp steel4 ,the ,tartar drew himself up and waited4 ,begin1 said ,ogareff4 ,the whip whistled through the air1 but1 before it fell1 a powerful hand stopped the ,tartar's arm4 ,ivan ,ogareff had succeeded4 ,michael ,strogoff6 ,ivan ,ogareff6 and raising the knout1 he struck ,ogareff a blow across the face4 ,blow for blow4 ,twenty soldiers threw themselves on ,michael and in another instant he would have been slain1 but ,ogareff stopped them4 ,this man is reserved for the ,emir's judgment4 ,search him4 ,the letter bearing the imperial arms was bound in ,michael's bosom2 he had not had time to destroy it4 ,it was handed to ,ogareff4 ,your forehead to the ground6 exclaimed ,ogareff4 ,no6 ,two soldiers tried to make him bend1 but were themselves laid on the ground by a blow from ,michael's fist4 ,who is this prisoner8 asked the ,emir4 ,a ,russian spy1 answered ,ogareff4 ,in asserting that ,michael was a spy1 he knew that the sentence would be terrible4 ,the ,emir made a sign1 at which all bowed low their heads4 ,then he pointed to the ,koran which was brought him4 ,he opened the sacred book1 and placing his finger on one of its pages1 read in loud voice1 a verse ending in these words3 ,and he shall no more see the things of this earth4 ,russian spy1 you have come to see what is going on in the ,tartar camp2 then look while you may6 ,michael ,strogoff's punishment was not death1 but blindness4 ,they drew a red-hot saber across his eyes1 and the courier was blind6 ,after the ,emir's orders were executed1 thinking they had robbed ,michael ,strogoff of all power to do further harm1 the ,emir retired with his train1 and ,michael was left alone4 ,but his desire to reach the ,grand ,duke was not quenched by this terrible calamity4 ,he understood that ,ivan ,ogareff1 having obtained his seal and commission1 would try to reach the ,grand ,duke before he1 himself1 could possibly get there1 carrying a false message1 which would betray all ,siberia4 ,michael1 after disheartening trials in finding a trusty companion1 finally succeeded and pushed on towards ,irkutsk1 only hoping he might reach the place before ,ogareff should betray the city4 ,at last1 after a most painful fourteen days' journey1 he is at the very gate of the ,governor's palace4 ,entrance is easy1 for confusion reigns everywhere4 ,but ,michael is in time4 ,with his trusty companion he goes distractedly through the passages4 ,no one heeds him4 ,michael opens one of the doors and enters a room flooded with light1 and there he stands face to face with the one whose villainous hand would one instant later have betrayed all ,siberia6 ,ivan ,ogareff6 he cries4 ,on hearing his name pronounced1 the wretch starts4 ,his real name known1 all his plans will be frustrated4 ,there is but one thing to be done2 to kill the one who had just uttered it4 ,ogareff rises and sees the blind courier6 ,thinking he has an immense advantage over the blind man1 he throws himself upon him4 ,but with one hand ,michael grasps the arm of his enemy and hurls him to the ground4 ,ogareff gathers himself together like a tiger about to spring1 and utters not a word4 ,the noise of his footsteps1 his very breathing1 he tries to conceal from the blind man4 ,at last1 with a spring1 he drives his sword full blast at ,michael's breast4 ,an imperceptible movement of the blind man's knife turns aside the blow4 ,michael is not touched1 and coolly waits a second attack4 ,cold drops stand on ,ogareff's brow2 he draws back a step and again leaps forward4 ,but like the first1 this attempt fails4 ,michael's knife has parried the blow from the traitor's useless sword4 ,mad with rage and terror1 he gazes into the wide open eyes of the blind man4 ,those eyes which seemed to pierce to the bottom of his soul1 and which did not1 could not1 see1 exercise a sort of dreadful fascination over him4 ,suddenly ,ogareff utters a cry3 ,he sees6 ,he sees6 ,yes1 ,i see4 ,thinking of my mother1 the tears which sprang to my eyes saved my sight4 ,i see the mark of the knout which ,i gave you1 traitor and coward6 ,i see the place where ,i am about to strike you6 ,defend your life6 ,it is a duel ,i offer you6 ,my knife against your sword6 ,the tears1 which his pride in vain endeavored to subdue1 welling up from his heart1 had gathered under his eyelids1 and volatilized on the cornea1 and the vapor formed by his tears interposing between the glowing saber and his eyeballs had been sufficient to annihilate the action of the heat and save his sight4 ,ogareff now feels that he is lost1 but mustering up all his courage he springs forward4 ,the two blades cross1 but at a touch from ,michael's knife the sword flies in splinters1 and the wretch1 stabbed to the heart1 falls lifeless to the ground4 ,the crash of the steel attracting the attention of the ducal train1 the door is thrown open1 and the ,grand ,duke1 accompanied by some of his officers1 enters4 ,the ,grand ,duke advances4 ,in the body lying on the ground he recognizes the man whom he believes to be the ,czar's courier4 ,then in threatening voice1 ,who killed this man4 ,i1 answered ,michael4 ,thy name8 ,i know him6 ,he is the ,czar's courier4 ,that man1 your highness1 is not a courier of the ,czar6 ,he is ,ivan ,ogareff6 ,ivan1 the traitor8 ,yes4 ,but who are you1 then8 ,michael ,strogoff4 ,and you come8 ,for ,god1 for the ,czar1 and for my native land6 ,,mrs4 ,,tree#gi ,,laura ,e4 ,,richards ,mrs4 ,tree was over seventy1 but apart from an amazing reticulation of wrinkles netted close and fine like a woven veil1 she showed little sign of her great age4 ,as she herself said1 she had her wits and her teeth1 and she didn't see what any one wanted with more4 ,in her afternoon gown of plum-colored satin she was a pleasing and picturesque figure4 ,on this particular afternoon it was with very little ceremony that ,direxia ,hawkes1 her life-long servitor1 burst into the room4 ,direxia had been to market and had brought all the news with her marketing4 ,ithuriel ,butters is a singular man1 ,mis' ,tree--he give me a turn just now1 he did so4 ,i says1 ',how's ,miss ,butters now1 ,ithuriel8' ,i knew she'd been real poorly1 but ,i hadn't heard for a considerable time4 ',i ain't no notion1' says he4 ',what do you mean1 ,ithuriel ,butters8' ,i says4 ',just what ,i say1' says he4 ',why1 where is she8' ,i says4 ,i thought she might be visitin'1 you know4 ,she has consid'able kin 'round here4 ',i ain't no idee1' says he4 ',i lef her in the burying ground1 that's all ,i know4' ,mis' ,tree1 that woman has been dead a month and ,i never knew a single word about it4 ,they're all singular people1 them ,butterses4 ,just then there was a ring at the door bell and ,direxia shuffled away to answer it2 then a man's voice was heard asking some questions4 ,mrs4 ,tree sat alive and alert and called3 ,direxia6 ,yes'm4 ,jest a minit4 ,i'm seein' to something4 ,direxia ,hawkes6 ,how you do pester me1 ,mis' ,tree2 there's a man at the door and ,i don't want to let him stay there alone4 ,what does he look like8 ,i don't know1 he's a tramp1 if he's nothing worse4 ,most likely he's stealing the umbrellas while here ,i stand6 ,show him in here6 ,what say8 ,show him in here and don't pretend to be deaf when you hear as well as ,i do4 ,you don't want him in here1 ,mis' ,tree--he's a tramp1 ,i tell ye1 and the toughest looking-- ,will you show him in here or shall ,i come and fetch him8 ,well6 of all the cantankerous1--here6 come in1 you6 ,she wants to see you1 and a man appeared in the doorway--he was shabbily dressed1 but it was noticeable that the threadbare clothes were clean4 ,mrs4 ,tree looked at him and then looked again4 ,what do you want here8 ,i ask for food1 ,i'm hungry4 ,are you a tramp8 ,yes1 ,madam6 ,anything else8 ,just here ,direxia burst in with ,that'll be enough--you come out in the kitchen and ,i'll give you something to eat in a paper bag and you can take it away with you4 ,i shall be pleased to have you take supper with me1 sir6 ,direxia1 set a place for this gentleman4 ,i--cannot1 ,madam6--,i thank you1 but you must excuse me4 ,why can't you8 ,you must excuse me6 ,if your woman will give me a morsel to eat in the kitchen1 or perhaps ,i had better go at once4 ,stop6 ,direxia1 go and set another place for supper6 ,shut the door6 ,come here and sit down6 ,no1 not on that cheer4 ,take the ottoman with the bead puppy on it4 ,there6 ,i get crumpled up1 sitting here alone4 ,some day ,i shall turn to wood4 ,i like a new face and a new notion4 ,i had a grandson who used to live with me1 and ,i'm lonesome since he died4 ,how do you like tramping1 now8 ,pretty well2 it's all right in the summer1 or when a man has his health4 ,see things1 hey1 new folks1 new faces1 get ideas1 is that it8 ,that begins it1 but after a while1--,i really think ,i must go4 ,madam1 you are very kind but ,i prefer to go4 ,cat's foot6 ,the shabby man laughed helplessly and just then ,direxia stuck her head in at the door and snapped out1 ,supper's ready6 ,the shabby man seemed in a kind of dream--half unconsciously he put the old lady into her chair--then at a sign from her he took the seat opposite--he laid the damask napkin across his knees and winced at the touch of it as at the touch of a long-forgotten hand4 ,mrs4 ,tree talked on easily1 asking questions about the roads he traveled and the people he met4 ,he answered briefly4 ,suddenly close at hand a voice spoke4 ,old friends6 ,the man started to his feet1 white as the napkin he held4 ,it's only a parrot6 ,sit down again4 ,there he is at your elbow4 ,jocko is his name4 ,he does my swearing for me4 ,my grandson and a friend of his taught him that1 and ,i have taught him a few other things besides4 ,good ,jocko6 ,speak up1 boy6 ,old friends to talk2 old books to read2 old wine to drink6 ,zooks6 ,hooray for ,arthur and ,will6 they're the boys6 ,that was my grandson and his friend4 ,what's the matter8 ,feel faint1 hey8 ,yes1 ,i am--faint4 ,i must get out into the air4 ,nothing of the sort6 ,you'll come upstairs and lie down4 ,no6 no6 not in this house4 ,never6 never6 ,cat's foot6 ,don't talk to me6 ,here6 give me your arm6 ,do as ,i say6 ,there6 ,and as they passed up the stairway the parrot cried1 ,old friends6 ,and ,direxia said1 ,i'm going to loose the bulldog1 ,mis' ,tree1 and ,deacon ,weight says he'll be over in two minutes4 ,there isn't any dog in the house1 and ,deacon ,weight is at ,conference1 and won't be back till the last of the week4 ,that will do1 ,direxia2 you mean well1 but you are a ninny-hammer4 ,this way6 ,this is my grandson's room--he died here--what's the matter--feel faint--hey8 ,yes6--,i do-- ,come1 ,willie--come lie down and rest on ,arthur's bed--you are tired1 boy4 ,mrs4 ,tree1 if you would not be so kind it would not be so hard--,i came--to--rob--you4 ,why1 so ,i supposed1 or thought it likely4 ,you can have all you want1 without that--there's plenty for you and me4 ,folks call me close1 and ,i like to do what ,i like with my own money4 ,there's plenty1 ,i tell you1 for you and me and the bird4 ,do you think he knew you1 ,willie8 ,i believe he did4 ,god knows6 ,when--how did you know me1 ,mrs4 ,tree8 ,get up1 ,willie ,jaquith1 and ,i'll tell you4 ,sit down2 there's the chair you made together1 when you were fifteen4 ,remember1 hey8 ,i knew your voice at the door1 or ,i thought ,i did4 ,then when you wouldn't look at the bead puppy1 ,i hadn't much doubt2 and when ,i said ',cat's foot6' and you laughed1 ,i knew for sure4 ,you've had a hard time1 ,willie1 but you are the same boy4 ,if you would not be kind1 ,i think it would be easier4 ,you ought to give me up1 you know1 and let me go to jail4 ,i'm a drunkard and a vagrant1 and worse--but--you won't--do that--you won't do that4 ,no6 ,i won't4 ,hark1 there's some one at the door--it's ',malviny ,weight4' ,now you lie down and rest--yes1 you will--that press there is full of ,arthur's clothes--then you come down and talk to me--,you do as ,i tell you1 ,willie ,jaquith1 or ,i'll set the parrot on you2 remember when he bit you for stealing his apple1--there's the scar still on your cheek4 ,greatest wonder in the world he didn't put your eye out4 ,served you right if he had1 too--,yes1 ,malviny1 ,i'm coming6 ,and as ,mrs4 ,tree descended the stairs she was met by ,mrs4 ,weight1 who broke out saying3 ,i've waited most an hour to see that tramp come out4 ,deacon's away1 and ,i was scairt to death1 but ,i'm a mother and ,i had to come4 ,how ,i had the courage ,i don't know1 when ,i thought you and ,mis' ,tree might meet my eyes both layin' dead in this entry4 ,where is he8 ,don't you help or harbor him now1 ,direxia ,hawkes6 ,i saw his evil eye as he stood on the doorstep1 and ,i knew by the way he peeked and peered that he was after no good4 ,where is he8 ,i know he didn't go out4 ,hush6 ,don't say a word6 ,i'll slip out and round and get ,hiram ,sawyer4 ,my boys is to singing-school1 and it was a special ordering that ,i happened to look out at the window just that moment of time4 ,where did you say he-- ,why1 good evening1 ,malviny1 what was it you were saying8 ,i'm sure1 ,mis' ,tree1 it's not on my own account ,i come4 ,i'm the last to intrude1 as any one in this village can tell you4 ,but you are an ancient woman1 and your neighbors are bound to protect you when need is4 ,i see that tramp come in here with my own eyes1 and he's here for no good4 ,what tramp8 ,good land1 ,mis' ,tree1 didn't you see him8 ,he slipped right in past ,direxia4 ,i see him with these eyes4 ,when8 ',most an hour ago4 ,i've been watching ever since4 ,don't tell me you didn't know about him bein' here1 ,mis' ,tree1 now don't4 ,i won't4 ,he's hid away somewheres6 ,direxia ,hawkes has hid him2 he is an accomplish of hers4 ,you've always trusted that woman1 ,mis' ,tree1 but ,i tell you ,i've had my eye on her these ten years1 and now ,i have found her out4 ,she's hid him away somewheres1 ,i tell you4 ,there's cupboards and closets enough in this house to hide a whole gang of cutthroats in--and when you're abed and asleep they'll have your life1 them two1 and run off with your worldly goods that you thought so much of4 ,would have1 that is1 if ,i hadn't have had a special ordering to look out of the winder4 ,oh1 how thankful should ,i be that ,i kept the use of my limbs1 though ,i was scairt 'most to death1 and am now4 ,yes1 they might be useful to you1 to get home with1 for instance4 ,there1 that will do1 ,malvina ,weight4 ,there is no tramp here4 ,your eyesight is failing2 there were always weak eyes in your family4 ,there's no tramp here1 and there has been none4 ,mis' ,tree6 ,i tell you ,i see him with these-- ,bah6 don't talk to me6 ,there is no tramp here and there has been none--what you took for a tramp is a gentleman that's come to stay over night with me--he's upstairs now--did you lock your door1 ,malvina--,there are tramps about and if ,ephraim's away--well1 good-night1 ,malvina1 if you must go4 ,she goes out4 ,now1 ,direxia1 you shut that door and if that woman calls again to-night you set the parrot on her4 ,the next morning found ,mrs4 ,tree an early riser and it was with eagerness she greeted her visitor4 ,you are better this morning1 ,willie1 yes1 you are--now go on and tell me--after all your bad luck you took to drink4 ,that wasn't very sensible1 was it8 ,i didn't care1 said ,william ,jaquith4 ,it helped me to forget a bit at a time4 ,i thought ,i could give it up any day1 but ,i didn't4 ,then--,i lost my place1 of course1 and started to come ,east1 and had my pocket picked in ,denver1 of every cent ,i had4 ,i tried for work there1 but between sickness and drink ,i wasn't good for much4 ,i started tramping4 ,i thought ,i would tramp--it was last spring1 and warm weather coming on--till ,i'd got my health back1 and then ,i'd steady down and get some work1 and come back to mother when ,i was fit to look her in the face4 ,then--in some place1 ,i forget--,i came upon a ,king's ,county paper with mother's death in it4 ,what6 ,o6 ,i know ,i wasn't fit to see her--but ,i lost all hope then4 ,why don't you give up drink8 ,where's the use8 ,i would if there were any use1 but mother is dead4 ,cat's foot--fiddlestick--folderol--fudge6 ,she's no more dead than ,i am4 ,don't talk to me6 ,hold on to yourself now1 ,willie ,jaquith1 and don't make a scene2 it is a thing ,i cannot abide4 ,it was ,maria ,jaquith that died1 over at ,east ,corners4 ,small loss she was1 too4 ,none of that family was ever worth their salt4 ,the fool who writes for the papers put her in ',mary1' and gave out that she died here in ,elmerton just because they brought her here to bury4 ,they've always buried here in the family lot1 as if they were of some account4 ,i was afraid you might hear of it1 ,willie1 and wrote to the last place ,i heard of you in1 but of course it was of no use4 ,mary ,jaquith is alive1 ,i tell you4 ,now where are you going8 ,to mother6 ,yes1 ,i would6 ,sit down1 ,willie ,jaquith2 do as ,i tell you6 ,there6 feel pretty well1 hey8 ,your mother is blind4 ,oh1 mother6 mother6 ,i have left her alone all this time4 ,exactly6 ,now don't go into a caniption1 because it won't do any good4 ,here comes ,direxia with your breakfast--you eat it and then we'll go and see your mother4 ,out of doors the morning was bright and clear4 ,mrs4 ,malvina ,weight1 sweeping her front chamber1 with an anxious eye on the house opposite1 saw the door open and ,mrs4 ,tree come out1 followed by a tall young man4 ,the old lady wore the huge black velvet bonnet1 surmounted by a bird of paradise1 which she had brought from ,paris forty years before1 and an ,india shawl which had pointed a moral to the pious of ,elmerton for more than that length of time4 ,mrs4 ,weight's curiosity knew no bounds when she saw them turn into the old ,jaquith place4 ,she would have been more astounded if she could have heard ,mrs4 ,tree begin at once with3 ,well1 ,mary ,jaquith1 here you sit6 ,mrs4 ,tree6 ,is this you8 asked ,mrs4 ,jaquith2 my dear soul1 what brings you out so early in the morning8 ,come in6 come in6 who is with you8 ,i didn't say any one was with me6 ,don't you go to setting double-action ears like mine1 ,mary1 because you are not old enough to4 ,how are you8 ,obstinate as ever8 ,take this chair1 it's the one you always like4 ,how am ,i obstinate1 dear ,mrs4 ,tree8 ,if ,i've asked you once to come and live with me1 ,i've asked you fifty times1 grumbled the old lady1 sitting down with a good deal of flutter and rustle4 ,there ,i must stay1 left alone at my age1 with nobody but that old goose of a ,direxia ,hawkes to look after me4 ,and all because you like to be independent4 ,set you up6 ,well1 ,i shan't ask you again1 and so ,i've come to tell you1 ,mary ,jaquith4 ,dear old friend1 you forgive me1 ,i know4 ,you never can have thought for a moment1 seriously1 that ,i could be a burden on your kind hands4 ,there surely is some one with you1 ,mrs4 ,tree6 ,is it ,direxia8 ,please be seated1 whoever it is4 ,there was a slight sound1 as of a sob checked in the outbreak4 ,mrs4 ,tree shook her head fiercely4 ,the blind woman rose from her seat1 very pale4 ,who is it8 ,be kind1 please1 and tell me4 ,i'm going to tell you1 said ,mrs4 ,tree1 if you will have patience for two minutes1 and not drive every idea out of my head with your talk4 ,i had a visitor last night1 ,mary--some one came to see me--an old acquaintance--some one who had seen ,willie lately4 ,now ,mary ,jaquith1 if you don't sit down1--well1 of all the unreasonable women ,i ever saw6 ,the blind woman had stretched out her arms with a heavenly gesture of appeal1--of welcome1 of love unutterable1--and in a moment more her son's arms were about her and he was crying over and over again1 ,mother1 mother1 mother6 as if he could not have enough of that word4 ,,footnote3 #gi ,an adaptation by ,grace ,arlington ,owen4 ,,the ,,portrait ,,robert ,,bulwer ,,lytton ,midnight past6 ,not a sound of aught ,through the silent house1 but the wind at his prayers4 ,i sat by the dying fire1 and thought ,of the dear dead woman upstairs4 ,a night of tears6 for the gusty rain ,had ceased1 but the eaves were dripping yet2 ,and the moon looked forth1 as though in pain1 ,with her face all white and wet3 ,nobody with me1 my watch to keep1 ,but the friend of my bosom1 the man ,i love3 ,and grief had sent him fast to sleep ,in the chamber up above4 ,nobody else1 in the country place ,all round1 that knew of my loss beside1 ,but the good young priest with the ,raphael-face1 ,who confessed her when she died4 ,the good young priest is of gentle nerve1 ,and my grief had moved him beyond control2 ,for his lips grew white1 as ,i could observe1 ,when he speeded her parting soul4 ,i sat by the dreary hearth alone2 ,i thought of the pleasant days of yore4 ,i said1 ,the staff of my life is gone2 ,the woman ,i loved is no more4 ,on her cold1 dead bosom my portrait lies ,which next to her heart she used to wear1-- ,haunting it o'er with her tender eyes ,when my own face was not there4 ,it is set all round with rubies red1 ,and pearls which a ,peri might have kept2 ,for each ruby there my heart hath bled2 ,for each pearl my eyes have wept4 ,and ,i said1 ,the thing is precious to me1 ,they will bury her soon in the church-yard clay2 ,it lies on her heart1 and lost must be1 ,if ,i do not take it away4 ,i lighted my lamp at the dying flame1 ,and crept up the stairs that creaked from fright1 ,till into the chamber of death ,i came1 ,where she lay all in white4 ,the moon shone over her winding-sheet4 ,there1 stark she lay on her carven bed2 ,seven burning tapers about her feet1 ,and seven about her head4 ,as ,i stretched my hand1 ,i held my breath2 ,i turned as ,i drew the curtains apart2 ,i dared not look on the face of death1 ,i knew where to find her heart4 ,i thought1 at first1 as my touch fell there1 ,it had warmed that heart to life1 with love2 ,for the thing ,i touched was warm1 ,i swear1 ,and ,i could feel it move4 ',twas the hand of a man1 that was moving slow ,o'er the heart of the dead1--from the other side2 ,and at once the sweat broke over my brow1 ,who is robbing the corpse8 ,i cried4 ,opposite me1 by the tapers' light1 ,the friend of my bosom1 the man ,i loved1 ,stood over the corpse1 and all as white1 ,and neither of us moved4 ,what do you here1 my friend8 444 ,the man ,looked first at me1 and then at the dead4 ,there is a portrait here1 he began2 ,there is4 ,it is mine1 ,i said4 ,said the friend of my bosom1 ,yours1 no doubt1 ,the portrait was1 till a month ago1 ,when this suffering angel took that out1 ,and placed mine there1 ,i know4 ,this woman1 she loved me well1 said ,i4 ,a month ago1 said my friend to me2 ,and in your throat1 ,i groaned1 you lie6 ,he answered 444 ,let us see4 ,enough6 ,i returned1 let the dead decide3 ,and whosesoever the portrait prove1 ,his shall it be1 when the cause is tried1 ,where ,death is arraigned by ,love4 ,we found the portrait there in its place2 ,we opened it1 by the tapers' shine2 ,the gems were all unchanged2 the face ,was--neither his nor mine4 ,one nail drives out another1 at least6 ,the face of the portrait there1 ,i cried1 ,is our friend's1 the ,raphael-faced young priest1 ,who confessed her when she died4 ,the setting is all of rubies red1 ,and pearls which a ,peri might have kept2 ,for each ruby there my heart hath bled2 ,for each pearl my eyes have wept4 ,,the ,,tell-,,tale ,,heart ,a ,,murderer',s ,,confession ,,edgar ,,allan ,,poe ,true6--nervous--very1 very dreadfully nervous ,i had been and am2 but why will you say that ,i am mad8 ,hearken6 and observe how healthily--how calmly ,i can tell you the whole story4 ,it is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain2 but once conceived1 it haunted me day and night4 ,object1 there was none4 ,passion1 there was none4 ,i loved the old man4 ,he had never wronged me4 ,he had never given me insult4 ,for his gold ,i had no desire4 ,i think it was his eye6 yes1 it was this6 ,one of his eyes resembled that of a vulture--a pale-blue eye1 with a film over it4 ,whenever it fell upon me1 my blood ran cold2 and so by degrees--very gradually--,i made up my mind to take the life of the old man1 and thus rid my life of him forever4 ,now1 this is the point4 ,you fancy me mad4 ,madmen know nothing4 ,but you should have seen me4 ,you should have seen how wisely ,i proceeded--with what caution--with what foresight--with what dissimulation ,i went to work6 ,i was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before ,i killed him4 ,and every night1 about midnight1 ,i turned the latch of his door and opened it--oh1 so gently6 and then1 when ,i had made an opening sufficient for my head1 ,i put in a dark lantern1 all closed1 closed so that no light shone out1 and then ,i thrust in my head4 ,oh1 you would have laughed to see how cunningly ,i thrust it in6 ,i moved it slowly--very1 very slowly1 so that ,i might not disturb the old man's sleep4 ,it took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that ,i could see him as he lay upon the bed4 ,ha6--would a madman have been so wise as this8 ,and then1 when my head was well in the room1 ,i undid the lantern cautiously--oh1 so cautiously--cautiously 7for the hinges creaked7 ,i undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye4 ,and this ,i did for seven long nights--every night just at midnight--but ,i found the eye always closed2 and so it was impossible to do the work2 for it was not the old man who vexed me1 but his evil eye4 ,upon the eighth night ,i was more than usually cautious in opening the door4 ,to think that there ,i was1 opening the door1 little by little1 and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts4 ,i fairly chuckled at the idea2 and perhaps he heard me2 for he moved on the bed suddenly1 as if startled4 ,now you may think that ,i drew back--but no4 ,his room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness 7for the shutters were close fastened1 through fear of robbers71 and so ,i knew that he could not see the opening of the door1 and ,i kept pushing it on steadily1 steadily4 ,i had my head in1 and was about to open the lantern1 when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening1 and the old man sprang up in the bed crying out--,who's there8 ,i kept quite still and said nothing4 ,for a whole hour ,i did not move a muscle1 and in the meantime ,i did not hear him lie down4 ,presently ,i heard a slight groan1 and ,i knew it was the groan of mortal terror4 ,it was not a groan of pain or of grief--oh1 no6--it was the low1 stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe4 ,i knew the sound well4 ,i knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise1 when he had turned in the bed4 ,his fears had been ever since growing upon him4 ,he had been trying to fancy them causeless1 but could not4 ,when ,i had waited a long time1 very patiently1 without hearing him lie down1 ,i resolved to open a little--a very1 very little crevice in the lantern4 ,so ,i opened it--you cannot imagine how stealthily1 stealthily--until at length a single dim ray1 like the thread of the spider1 shot from out the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye4 ,it was open--wide1 wide open--and ,i grew furious as ,i gazed upon it4 ,i saw it with perfect distinctness--all a dull blue1 with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones2 but ,i could see nothing else of the old man's face or person2 for ,i had directed the ray as if by instinct1 precisely upon the spot4 ,now1 there came to my ears a low1 dull1 quick sound1 such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton4 ,i knew that sound well1 too4 ,it was the beating of the old man's heart4 ,it increased my fury1 as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage4 ,but even yet ,i refrained and kept still4 ,i scarcely breathed2 ,i held the lantern motionless4 ,i tried how steadily ,i could maintain the ray upon the eye4 ,meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased4 ,it grew quicker and quicker1 and louder and louder every instant4 ,the old man's terror must have been extreme6 ,it grew louder1 ,i say1 louder every moment6 do you mark me well8 ,i have told you that ,i am nervous2 so ,i am4 ,and now at the dead hour of the night1 amid the dreadful silence of that old house1 so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror4 ,yet for some minutes longer ,i refrained and stood still4 ,but the beating grew louder1 louder6 ,i thought the heart must burst4 ,and now a new anxiety seized me--the sound could be heard by a neighbor6 ,the old man's hour had come6 ,with a loud yell ,i threw open the lantern and leaped into the room4 ,he shrieked once--once only4 ,in an instant ,i dragged him to the floor1 and pulled the heavy bed over him4 ,i then smiled gayly to find the deed so far done4 ,but for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound4 ,this1 however1 did not vex me2 it would not be heard through the wall4 ,at length it ceased4 ,the old man was dead4 ,i removed the bed and examined the corpse4 ,i placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes4 ,there was no pulsation4 ,he was stone dead4 ,his eye would trouble me no more4 ,if you still think me mad1 you will think so no longer when ,i describe the wise precautions ,i took for the concealment of the body4 ,the night waned1 and ,i worked hastily1 but in silence4 ,first of all ,i dismembered the corpse4 ,i then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings4 ,i then replaced the boards so cleverly1 so cunningly1 that no human eye--not even his--could have detected anything wrong4 ,when ,i had made an end of these labors it was four o'clock--still dark as midnight4 ,as the bell sounded the hour1 there came a knocking at the street door4 ,i went down to open it with a light heart--for what had ,i now to fear8 ,then entered three men who introduced themselves1 with perfect suavity1 as officers of the police4 ,a shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night2 suspicion of foul play had been aroused2 information had been lodged at the police office1 and the officers had been deputed to search the premises4 ,i smiled--for what had ,i to fear8 ,i bade the gentlemen welcome4 ,the shriek1 ,i said1 was my own in a dream4 ,the old man1 ,i mentioned1 was absent in the country4 ,i took my visitors all over the house4 ,i bade them search--search well4 ,i led them at length to his chamber4 ,i showed them his treasures1 secure1 undisturbed4 ,in the enthusiasm of my confidence ,i brought chairs into the room1 and desired them here to rest from their fatigues1 while ,i myself1 in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph1 placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim4 ,the officers were satisfied4 ,my manner had convinced them4 ,i was singularly at ease4 ,but ere long ,i felt myself getting pale and wished them gone4 ,my head ached1 and ,i fancied a ringing in my ears2 but still they sat and still chatted4 ,the ringing became more distinct2 it continued and gained definitiveness--until at length ,i found that the noise was not within my ears4 ,no doubt ,i grew very pale2 but ,i talked more fluently and with a heightened voice4 ,yet the sound increased--and what could ,i do8 ,it was a low1 dull1 quick sound--much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton4 ,i gasped for breath--and yet the officers heard it not4 ,i talked more quickly--more vehemently2 but the noise steadily increased4 ,why would they not be gone8 ,i paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides1 as if excited to fury by the observations of the men--but the noise steadily increased4 ,o ,god6 what could ,i do8 ,i foamed--,i raved--,i swore6 ,i swung the chair upon which ,i had been sitting1 and grated it upon the boards1 but the noise arose over all and continually increased4 ,it grew louder--louder--louder4 ,and still the men chatted pleasantly and smiled4 ,was it possible they heard not8 ,they heard6--they suspected6--they knew6--they were making a mockery of my horror6 this ,i thought1 and this ,i think4 ,but anything was better than this agony6 ,anything was more tolerable than this derision6 ,i could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer6 ,i felt that ,i must scream or die6--and now--again6--hark6 louder6 louder6 louder6 louder6 ,villains6 ,i shrieked1 dissemble no more6 ,i admit the deed--tear up the planks6 here6 here6 it is the beating of his hideous heart6 ,,the ,,uncle ,h4 ,g4 ,,bell ,i had an uncle once--a man ,of threescore years and three1 ,and when my reason's dawn began1 ,he'd take me on his knee1 ,and often talk1 whole winter nights1 ,things that seemed strange to me4 ,he was a man of gloomy mood1 ,and few his converse sought2 ,but1 it was said1 in solitude ,his conscience with him wrought2 ,and then1 before his mental eye1 ,some hideous vision brought4 ,there was not one in all the house ,who did not fear his frown1 ,save ,i1 a little1 careless child1 ,who gamboled up and down1 ,and often peeped into his room1 ,and plucked him by his gown4 ,i was an orphan and alone-- ,my father was his brother1 ,and all their lives ,i knew that they ,had fondly loved each other2 ,and in my uncle's room there hung ,the picture of my mother4 ,there was a curtain over it-- ',twas in a darkened place1 ,and few or none had ever looked ,upon my mother's face2 ,or seen her pale1 expressive smile ,of melancholy grace4 ,one night--,i do remember well1 ,the wind was howling high1 ,and through the ancient corridors ,it sounded drearily2 ,i sat and read in that old hall2 ,my uncle sat close by4 ,i read--but little understood ,the words upon the book1 ,for with a sidelong glance ,i marked ,my uncle's fearful look1 ,and saw how all his quivering frame ,in strong convulsions shook4 ,a silent terror o'er me stole1 ,a strange1 unusual dread2 ,his lips were white as bone--his eyes ,sunk far down in his head2 ,he gazed on me1 but 'twas the gaze ,of the unconscious dead4 ,then suddenly he turned him round1 ,and drew aside the veil ,that hung before my mother's face2 ,perchance my eyes might fail1 ,but ne'er before that face to me ,had seemed so ghastly pale4 ,come hither1 boy6 my uncle said-- ,i started at the sound2 ',twas choked and stifled1 in his throat1 ,and hardly utterance found2 ,come hither1 boy6 then fearfully ,he cast his eyes around4 ,that lady was thy mother once-- ,thou wert her only child2 ,o ,god6 ,i've seen her when she held ,thee in her arms and smiled-- ,she smiled upon thy father1 boy1 ',twas that which drove me wild6 ,he was my brother1 but his form ,was fairer far than mine2 ,i grudged not that2--he was the prop ,of our ancestral line1 ,and manly beauty was of him ,a token and a sign4 ,boy6 ,i had loved her too--nay1 more1 ',twas ,i who loved her first2 ,for months--for years--the golden thought ,within my soul was nursed2 ,he came--he conquered--they were wed-- ,my air-blown bubble burst6 ,then on my mind a shadow fell1 ,and evil hopes grew rife2 ,the damning thought stuck in my heart1 ,and cut me like a knife1 ,that she1 whom all my days ,i loved1 ,should be another's wife6 ,i left my home--,i left the land-- ,i crossed the raging sea2 ,in vain--in vain--where'er ,i turned1 ,my memory went with me2 ,my whole existence1 night and day1 ,in memory seemed to be4 ,i came again1 ,i found them here-- ,thou'rt like thy father1 boy-- ,he doted on that pale face there1 ,i've seen them kiss and toy-- ,i've seen him locked in her fond arms1 ,wrapped in delirious joy6 ,by ,heaven6 it was a fearful thing1 ,to see my brother now1 ,and mark the placid calm that sat ,forever on his brow1 ,that seemed in bitter scorn to say1 ,i am more loved than thou6 ,he disappeared--draw nearer1 child6-- ,he died--no one knew how2 ,the murdered body ne'er was found1 ,the tale is hushed up now2 ,but there was one who rightly guessed ,the hand that struck the blow4 ,it drove her mad--yet not his death-- ,no--not his death alone2 ,for she had clung to hope1 when all ,knew well that there was none2 ,no1 boy6 it was a sight she saw ,that froze her into stone6 ,i am thy uncle1 child--why stare ,so frightfully aghast8-- ,the arras waves1 but know'st thou not ',tis nothing but the blast8 ,i1 too1 have had my fears like these1 ,but such vain fears are past4 ,i'll show thee what thy mother saw-- ,i feel 'twill ease my breast1 ,and this wild tempest-laden night ,suits with the purpose best4 ,come hither--thou hast often sought ,to open this old chest4 ,it has a secret spring2 the touch ,is known to me alone2 ,slowly ,i raise the lid1 and now-- ,what see you1 that you groan ,so heavily8 ,that thing is but ,a bare-ribbed skeleton4 ,a sudden crash--the lid fell down-- ,three strides he backward gave1 ,oh1 ,god6 it is my brother's self ,returning from the grave6 ,his grasp of lead is on my throat-- ,will no one help or save8 ,that night they laid him on his bed1 ,in raving madness tossed2 ,he gnashed his teeth1 and with wild oaths ,blasphemed the ,holy ,ghost2 ,and1 ere the light of morning broke1 ,a sinner's soul was lost4 ,,vi ,,scenes ,,from ,,the ,,drama ,the selections in this division are cut1 condensed1 and adapted for practical use as dramas or monologues4 ,in some cases lines of the text as well as explanations are written in to connect the scenes for clearer unity4 ,for scenes from ,shakespeare and readings from the ,bible1 already universally printed and accessible1 see the indexes and directions as to the omissions of lines in various cuttings in ,fulton and ,trueblood's ,choice ,readings1 published by ,messrs4 ,ginn ,company4 ,,the ,,bells ,,henry ,l4 ,,williams ,,act ,,iii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,hans ,matthis1 keeper of the ,merry ,andrew2 ,dr4 ,frantz1 the magnetizer2 the ,judge4 ,,scene3 ,alsatia1 in a hamlet at the foot of the mountains2 ,christmas1 #ahfh2 a room in an inn4 ,matthis1 a prosperous burgomaster1 recalls with friends the murder of a ,polish ,jew1 fifteen years before4 ,he wonders that the murderer has never been apprehended4 ,the sound of sleigh bells is heard and the apparition of the ,jew appears4 ,matthis is prostrated by the incident and consults a mesmerist1 ,dr4 ,frantz1 who assures him that he has power to compel a criminal to divulge his secret thought4 ,matthis isolates himself and sleeps alone to avoid eavesdropping4 ,on the night of his daughter's wedding he makes payment of her dowry1 and as the money is laid on the table a sleigh bell falls from among the gold coins4 ,he seeks his own room1 falls asleep and dreams that he is before the court and that ,dr4 ,frantz is mesmerizing him4 ,enter ,,matthis ,,mat4 ,happy fellow6 happy fellows all of them6 ,a man may play against fate if he only prepares his cards--,i hold none but good ones in my hand4 ,ha1 ha6 ,they have their skins full of my best wine1 and go home happy as kings4 ,ha1 ha6 there'll be some funny flounderings in the snow before they reach home4 ,it's singular what magic is melted into wine--one draught1 and all the clouds are sunshine4 ,it's dark6 it's very dark--and1 though the wind has fallen1 the fine snow sweeps down the road like a train of phantoms4 ,all is well6 ,you may shake hands with yourself1 ,hans ,matthis6 you have triumphed over both the world and ,heaven6 ,i am so sleepy6 ,if ,i rest here a--a moment8 ,ah6 ,one is always drowsy in cold weather4 ,no one can hear me if ,i speak--in a dream--no one--the ,jew6--dreams1 nonsense6 ,sleeps4 ,enter ,,dr4 ,,frantz and the ,,judge ,,dr4 ,f4 ,my lord1 it is the will of this tribunal which leads me here1 not mine4 ,,judge4 ,can you place that man in the mesmeric sleep8 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,i can4 ,but he is strong-willed1 and the task may be hard4 ,,mat4 ,no1 no6 ,i have no fear4 ,shudders2 aside4 ,matthis1 if you fall asleep you will be lost6 ,,dr4 ,f4 to ,,matthis4 ,i will that you should sleep6 ,makes magnetic passes while looking at ,,matthis4 ,,mat4 ,no1 no6 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,it is my will4 ,he sleeps4 ,what must ,i ask8 ,,judge4 ,what he did on ,christmas ,eve1 fifteen years ago4 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,i command you to be on the night of ,december the four-and-twentieth1 year #ahec4 ,,mat4 softly4 ,yes4 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,what is the hour8 ,,mat4 ,it is half-past eleven o'clock4 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,speak6 ,it is my will6 ,,mat4 ,the customers have left the inn4 ,catherine and little ,annette have gone to bed4 ,kaspar comes in and says--the fire in the lime-kiln is drawing well4 ,i answer3 ,very good4 ,go to bed4 ,i'll go have a look at it4 ,he goes up stairs4 ,i am alone with the ,polish ,jew1 who is warming himself at the stove4 ,all are asleep in the village4 ,all ,i heard was the sleigh-bell jingling on the ,polander's horse in the shed4 ,there was two feet of snow on the ground4 ,i thought of my want of money4 ,if ,i did not have three thousand francs by the end of the month1 the inn would be taken from me4 ,i thought--no one is on the road--'tis night1 and the ,polander will be all alone in the snow4 ,he is well-built1 and strong4 ,as if he saw the man before him4 ,i warrant he will hold out stoutly if any one touches him4 ,ah6 he looks at me with his little gray eyes4 ,i must do my work6 ,yes4 ,i shall risk it6 ,i go out4 ,it is black as ink1 except for the falling snow4 ,there would be no footsteps in the road4 ,i search his sledge--he might have had pistols6 but there are none4 ,i will do it6 ,hark6 no--not a sound1 save a child crying--a goat bleating--and the tramp overhead of the ,polander in his chamber4 ,i went in4 ,he comes down1 and puts six francs on the table4 ,i give him change4 ,he looks a long look at me1 and asks how far to ,mootzig8 ,four short leagues1 say ,i--and wish him a merry journey6 ,he answers3 ,god bless you6 ,pause4 ,ho1 ho6 the belt6 the money-belt6 ,he goes--he has gone6 ,,matthis stooping1 goes a few steps as if following a trail4 ,the axe--where is the axe8 ,ah6 here--behind the door6 ,how cold it is6 ,still falls the snow1 and far above1 ,i see the shooting stars4 ,haste1 ,matthis1 for the prize--the money-belt6 ,i follow--out of the village--to the open--how cold it is6 ,shivers4 ,yonder looms up the big bridge--there ripples the rivulet out of sight under the snow4 ,how the dogs bayed1 on ,daniel's farm6 and the blacksmith's forge glowed red on the hill-side like a setting sun4 ,matthis1 slay not the man6 ,you are mad6 ,you will be rich1 and your wife and child will want for nothing6 ,the ,polander had no business to flaunt his money-belt in your face1 when you owe money6 ,the bridge6 ,i am already at the bridge6 ,and no one6 how still it is6 how cold6 though ,i am warm--,hark6 one o'clock by the village church6 and the moon is rising6 ,oh6 the ,jew has passed1 and ,i am right glad of it6 ,no6 what do ,i hear8 the bell6 the sleigh-bell4 ,i shall be rich1 ,i shall be rich1 rich1 rich6 ,the bell tinkles4 ,down6 ,i have you1 dog of a ,jew6 ,he has his score settled6 ,not a finger stirs4 ,all is over6 ,ah6 ,away rushes the horse with the sledge6 but silently--the bell has been shaken off6 ,hark1 hark--a step6 ,no6 only the wind and a fall of snow4 ,quick1 quick1 the money-belt6 'tis full6 it bursts with my eager clutch6 ah6 the coins have fallen6 here1 here and there6 ,and now for home6 no1 no--the body--it must not tell its story6 ,rolls up the mantle and puts it on his shoulder4 ,hush6 the kiln1 the lime-kiln4 ,it is heavy6 ,into the fire4 ,jew6 fire and flames for the ,jew6 ,oh6 what eyes6 with what eyes does he regard me6 ,be a man1 ,matthis1 look6 look boldly6 not even his bones are left6 ,now1 away with the belt--pocket the gold--that's right6 ,no one will ever know4 ,the proofs are gone forever6 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,what more shall he be asked8 ,,judge4 ,no more4 ,wake him and let him see himself4 ,,matthis sits in the chair as at first4 ,,dr4 ,f4 ,awake6 ,i will it4 ,,mat4 ,where am ,i8 ,ah1 yes--what have ,i done8 ,wretch6 ,i have confessed it all6 ,i am a lost man6 ,,judge4 ,you stand self-condemned6 ,inasmuch as ,hans ,matthis1 on the morning of the #beth of ,december1 #ahec1 between the hours of midnight and one o'clock1 committed the crime of murder and highway robbery upon the person of ,baruch ,koweski1 with malice prepense1 we condemn him to be hanged by the neck till death shall ensue4 ,and may ,heaven have mercy on his soul6 ,usher1 let the executioner appear and take charge of the condemned4 ,curtain4 ,,the ,,lady ,,of ,,lyons ,,robert ,,bulwer ,,lytton ,,act ,,ii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,pauline ,deschappelles1 the beautiful daughter and heiress of an aspiring merchant of ,lyons1 ,france2 ,claude ,melnotte1 the gardener's son1 madly in love with ,pauline4 ,pauline aspires to an alliance with some prince or nobleman4 ,melnotte in the hope of winning her uses his small inheritance in educating himself and becomes an accomplished scholar1 a skillful musician1 a poet1 and an artist4 ,he pours forth his worship in a poem1 but his suit is rejected and he is subjected to violent insult4 ,stung to remorse he enters into a plot to personate a prince1 woo her in that guise1 and take her as a bride to his mother's cottage on their wedding night4 ,and1 in the faint hope of winning her as a prince and keeping her love as an untitled man after he has revealed his identity1 ,melnotte enters into a binding compact4 ,scene3 ,the garden of ,m4 ,deschappelles' house at ,lyons4 ,enter ,,melnotte as the ,prince of ,como1 leading ,,pauline ,,mel4 ,you can be proud of your connection with one who owes his position to merit--not birth4 ,,pauline4 ,why1 yes2 but still-- ,,mel4 ,still what1 ,pauline8 ,,pauline4 ,there is something glorious in the heritage of command4 ,a man who has ancestors is like a representative of the past4 ,,mel4 ,true2 but1 like other representatives1 nine times out of ten he is a silent member4 ,ah1 ,pauline6 not to the past1 but to the future1 looks true nobility1 and finds its blazon in posterity4 ,,pauline4 ,you say this to please me1 who have no ancestors2 but you1 prince1 must be proud of so illustrious a race6 ,,mel4 ,no1 no6 ,i would not1 were ,i fifty times a prince1 be a pensioner on the dead6 ,i honor birth and ancestry when they are regarded as the incentives to exertion1 not the title-deeds to sloth6 ,i honor the laurels that overshadow the graves of our fathers--it is our fathers ,i emulate1 when ,i desire that beneath the evergreen ,i myself have planted my own ashes may repose6 ,dearest6 couldst thou but see with my eyes6 ,,pauline4 ,i cannot forego pride when ,i look on thee1 and think that thou lovest me4 ,sweet ,prince1 tell me again of thy palace by the lake of ,como2 it is so pleasant to hear of thy splendors since thou didst swear to me that they would be desolate without ,pauline2 and when thou describest them1 it is with a mocking lip and a noble scorn1 as if custom had made thee disdain greatness4 ,,mel4 ,nay1 dearest1 nay1 if thou wouldst have me paint ,the home to which1 could love fulfill its prayers1 ,this hand would lead thee1 listen6 ,a deep vale ,shut out by ,alpine hills from the rude world2 ,near a clear lake1 margin'd by fruits of gold ,and whispering myrtles2 glassing softest skies1 ,as cloudless1 save with rare and roseate shadows1 ,as ,i would have thy fate6 ,,pauline4 ,my own dear love6 ,,mel4 ,a palace lifting to eternal summer ,its marble walls1 from out a glossy bower ,of coolest foliage1 musical with birds1 ,whose songs should syllable thy name6 ,at noon ,we'd sit beneath the arching vines1 and wonder ,why ,earth could be unhappy1 while the ,heavens ,still left us youth and love6 ,we'd have no friends ,that were not lovers2 no ambition1 save ,to excel them all in love2 we'd read no books ,that were not tales of love--that we might smile ,to think how poorly eloquence of words ,translates the poetry of hearts like ours6 ,and when night came1 amidst the breathless ,heavens ,we'd guess what star should be our home when love ,becomes immortal2 while the perfumed light ,stole through the mist of alabaster lamps1 ,and every air was heavy with the sighs ,of orange groves and music from sweet lutes1 ,and murmurs of low fountains that gush forth ,i' the midst of roses6--,dost thou like the picture8 ,,pauline4 ,oh1 as the bee upon the flower1 ,i hang ,upon the honey of thy eloquent tongue6 ,am ,i not blest8 ,and if ,i love too wildly1 ,who would not love thee like ,pauline8 ,,mel4 ,oh1 false one6 ,it is the prince thou lovest1 not the man2 ,if in the stead of luxury1 pomp1 and power1 ,i had painted poverty1 and toil1 and care1 ,thou hadst found no honey on my tongue2 ,pauline1 ,that is not love4 ,,pauline4 ,thou wrong'st me1 cruel ,prince6 ,at first1 in truth1 ,i might not have been won1 ,save through the weakness of a flatter'd pride2 ,but now--oh6 trust me--couldst thou fall from power ,and sink-- ,,mel4 ,as low as that poor gardener's son ,who dared to lift his eyes to thee8 ,,pauline4 ,even then1 ,methinks thou wouldst be only made more dear ,by the sweet thought that ,i could prove how deep ,is woman's love6 ,we are like the insects1 caught ,by the poor glittering of a garish flame2 ,but1 oh1 the wings once scorch'd1 the brightest star ,lures us no more2 and by the fatal light ,we cling till death6 ,,mel4 ,angel6 ,aside4 ,o conscience6 conscience6 ,it must not be--her love hath grown a torture ,worse than her hate4 ,i will at once to ,beauseant1 ,and--ha6 he comes4 ,sweet love1 one moment leave me4 ,i have business with these gentlemen--,i--,i ,will forthwith join you4 ,,pauline4 ,i obey1 sweet ,prince4 ,exit separately4 ,,act ,,iii1 ,,scene ,,ii ,,characters3 ,pauline1 ,claude1 and the ,widow ,melnotte1 the mother of ,claude4 ,,scene3 ,melnotte's cottage1 widow bustling about1 a table spread for supper4 ,,widow4 ,so1 ,i think that looks very neat4 ,he sent me a line1 so blotted that ,i can scarcely read it1 to say he would be here almost immediately4 ,she must have loved him well indeed to have forgotten his birth2 for though he was introduced to her in disguise1 he is too honorable not to have revealed to her the artifice2 which her love only could forgive4 ,well1 ,i do not wonder at it2 for though my son is not a prince1 he ought to be one1 and that's almost as good4 ,knock at door4 ,ah6 here they are4 ,enter ,,melnotte and ,,pauline ,,widow4 ,oh1 my boy--the pride of my heart6--welcome1 welcome4 ,i beg pardon1 ma'am1 but ,i do love him so6 ,,pauline4 ,good woman1 ,i really--why1 ,prince1 what is this8--does the old lady know you8 ,oh1 ,i guess you have done her some service4 ,another proof of your kind heart2 is it not8 ,,mel4 ,of my kind heart1 ay6 ,,pauline4 ,so you know the ,prince8 ,,widow4 ,know him1 madam8 ,ah1 ,i begin to fear it is you who know him not6 ,,pauline4 ,can we stay here1 my lord8 ,i think there's something very wild about her4 ,,mel4 ,madam1 ,i--no1 ,i cannot tell her2 what a coward is a man who has lost his honor6 ,speak to her--speak to her--to his mother tell her that--,o ,heaven1 that ,i were dead6 ,,pauline4 ,how confused he looks6--this strange place6--this woman--what can it mean8--,i half suspect--who are you1 madam8--who are you8 can't you speak8 are you struck dumb8 ,,widow4 ,claude1 you have not deceived her8 ,ah1 shame upon you6 ,i thought that1 before you went to the altar1 she was to have known all4 ,,pauline4 ,all6 what6 ,my blood freezes in my veins6 ,,widow4 ,poor lady--dare ,i tell her1 ,claude8 ,know you not1 then1 madam1 that this young man is of poor though honest parents8 ,know you not that you are wedded to my son1 ,claude ,melnotte8 ,,pauline4 ,your son6 hold--hold6 do not speak to me4 ,approaches ,,melnotte4 ,is this a jest8 is it8 ,i know it is1 only speak--one word--one look--one smile4 ,i cannot believe--,i who loved thee so--,i cannot believe that thou art such a--no1 ,i will not wrong thee by a harsh word6 ,speak4 ,,mel4 ,leave us4 ,to ,,widow4 ,have pity on her1 on me2 leave us6 ,,widow4 ,oh1 ,claude1 that ,i should live to see thee bowed by shame6 thee of whom ,i was so proud6 ,exit4 ,,pauline4 ,her son--her son6 ,,mel4 ,now1 lady1 hear me4 ,,pauline4 ,hear thee6 ,ay1 speak--her son6 have fiends a parent8 speak1 ,that thou mayst silence curses--speak6 ,,mel4 ,no1 curse me2 ,thy curse would blast me less than thy forgiveness4 ,,pauline laughing wildly4 ,this is thy palace1 where the perfumed light ,steals through the mist of alabaster lamps1 ,and every air is heavy with the sighs ,of orange groves and music from sweet lutes1 ,and murmurs of low fountains that gush forth ,i' the midst of roses6--,dost thou like the picture8 ,this is my bridal home1 and thou my bridegroom6 ,o fool--,o dupe--,o wretch6 ,i see it all4 ,the by-word and the jeer of every tongue ,in ,lyons4 ,hast thou in thy heart one touch ,of human kindness8 if thou hast1 why kill me1 ,and save thy wife from madness4 ,no1 it cannot-- ,it cannot be2 this is some horrid dream2 ,i shall wake soon4 ,touching him4 ,art flesh8 art man8 or but ,the shadows seen in sleep8 ,it is too real4 ,what have ,i done to thee8 how sinn'd against thee1 ,that thou shouldst crush me thus8 ,,mel4 ,pauline1 by pride ,angels have fallen ere thy time2 by pride-- ,that sole alloy of thy most lovely mold-- ,the evil spirit of a bitter love1 ,and a revengeful heart1 had power upon thee4 ,from my first years my soul was fill'd with thee2 ,i saw thee midst the flow'rs the lowly boy ,tended1 unmark'd by thee--a spirit of bloom1 ,and joy1 and freshness1 as if ,spring itself ,were made a living thing1 and wore thy shape6 ,i saw thee1 and the passionate heart of man ,enter'd the breast of the wild-dreaming boy4 ,and from that hour ,i grew--what to the last ,i shall be--thine adorer6 ,well1 this love1 ,vain1 frantic1 guilty1 if thou wilt1 became ,a fountain of ambition and bright hope2 ,i thought of tales that by the winter hearth ,old gossips tell--how maidens1 sprung from kings1 ,have stoop'd from their high sphere2 how love1 like death1 ,levels all ranks1 and lays the shepherd's crook ,beside the scepter4 ,my father died2 and ,i1 the peasant born1 ,was my own lord4 ,then did ,i seek to rise ,out of the prison of my mean estate2 ,and1 with such jewels as the exploring mind ,brings from the caves of knowledge1 buy my ransom ,from those twin jailers of the daring heart-- ,low birth and iron fortune4 ,for thee ,i grew ,a midnight student o'er the dreams of sages4 ,for thee ,i sought to borrow from each grace1 ,and every muse1 such attributes as lend ,ideal charms to love4 ,i thought of thee1 ,and passion taught me poesy--of thee1 ,and on the painter's canvas grew the life ,of beauty6 ,art became the shadow ,of the dear starlight of thy haunting eyes6 ,men call'd me vain--some mad--,i heeded not2 ,but still toil'd on--hoped on--for it was sweet1 ,if not to win1 to feel more worthy thee4 ,,pauline4 ,why do ,i cease to hate him6 ,,mel4 ,at last1 in one mad hour1 ,i dared to pour ,the thoughts that burst their channels into song1 ,and set them to thee--such a tribute1 lady1 ,as beauty rarely scorns1 even from the meanest4 ,the name--appended by the burning heart ,that long'd to show its idol what bright things ,it had created--yea1 the enthusiast's name1 ,that should have been thy triumph1 was thy scorn2 ,that very hour--when passion1 turn'd to wrath1 ,resembled hatred most--when thy disdain ,made my whole soul a chaos--in that hour ,the tempters1 found me a revengeful tool ,for their revenge6 ,thou hadst trampled on the worm-- ,it turned and stung thee6 ,,pauline4 ,love1 sir1 hath no sting4 ,what was the slight of a poor powerless girl ,to the deep wrong of this most vile revenge8 ,oh1 how ,i loved this man6--a serf--a slave6 ,,mel4 ,hold1 lady6 ,no1 not a slave6 ,despair is free4 ,i will not tell thee of the throes--the struggles-- ,the anguish--the remorse4 ,no1 let it pass6 ,and let me come to such most poor atonement ,yet in my power4 ,pauline6-- ,,pauline4 ,no1 touch me not6 ,i know my fate4 ,you are1 by law1 my tyrant2 ,and ,i--,o ,heaven6--a peasant's wife6 ,i'll work-- ,toil--drudge--do what thou wilt--but touch me not6 ,let my wrongs make me sacred6 ,,mel4 ,do not fear me4 ,thou dost not know me1 madam2 at the altar ,my vengeance ceased--my guilty oath expired6 ,henceforth1 no image of some marble saint1 ,niched in cathedral aisles1 is hallowed more ,from the rude hand of sacrilegious wrong4 ,i am thy husband--nay1 thou need'st not shudder6-- ,here1 at thy feet1 ,i lay a husband's rights4 ,a marriage thus unholy--unfulfill'd-- ,a bond of fraud--is1 by the laws of ,france1 ,made void and null4 ,to-night sleep--sleep in peace4 ,to-morrow1 pure and virgin as this morn ,i bore thee1 bathed in blushes1 from the shrine1 ,thy father's arms shall take thee to thy home4 ,the law shall do thee justice1 and restore ,thy right to bless another with thy love4 ,and when them art happy1 and hast half forgot ,him who so loved--so wrong'd thee1 think at least ,heaven left some remnant of the angel still ,in that poor peasant's nature6 ,ho6 my mother6 ,enter ,,widow ,conduct this lady 7she is not my wife2 ,she is our guest--our honor'd guest1 my mother7 ,to the poor chamber1 where the sleep of virtue ,never1 beneath my father's honest roof1 ,e'en villains dared to mar6 ,now1 lady1 now ,i think thou wilt believe me4 ,go1 my mother6 ,,widow4 ,she is not thy wife6 ,,mel4 ,hush1 hush6 for mercy's sake6 ,speak not1 but go4 ,exit ,,widow4 ,,pauline follows1 weeping--turns to look back4 ,all angels bless and guard her6 ,,rip ,,van ,,winkle#hj ,,washington ,,irving ,,act ,i1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,rip ,van ,winkle2 ,derrick ,von ,beekman1 the villain of the play1 who endeavors to get ,rip drunk1 in order to have him sign away his property2 ,nick ,vedder1 the village innkeeper4 ,,scene3 ,the village inn2 present1 ,von ,beekman1 alone4 ,enter ,,rip1 shaking off the children1 who cling about him ,,rip to the children4 ,say6 hullo1 dere1 yu ,yacob ,stein6 ,let that dog ,schneider alone1 will you8 ,dere1 ,i tole you dat all de time1 if you don'd let him alone he's goin' to bide you6 ,why1 hullo1 ,derrick6 ,how you was8 ,ach1 my6 ,did you hear dem liddle fellers just now8 ,dey most plague me crazy4 ,ha1 ha1 ha6 ,i like to laugh my outsides in every time ,i tink about it4 ,just now1 as we was comin' along togedder1 ,schneider and me--,i don'd know if you know ,schneider myself8 ,well1 he's my dog4 ,well1 dem liddle fellers1 dey took ,schneider1 und--ha1 ha1 ha6--dey--ha1 ha1 ha6--dey tied a tin kettle mit his tail6 ,ha1 ha1 ha6 ,my gracious6 ,of you had seen dat dog run6 ,my1 how scared he was6 ,vell1 he was a-runnin' an' de kettle was a-bangin' an'--ha1 ha1 ha6 you believe it1 dat dog1 he run right betwixt me an' my legs6 ,ha1 ha1 ha6 ,he spill me und all dem leddle fellers down in de mud togedder4 ,ha1 ha1 ha6 ,,von ,b4 ,ah1 yes1 that's all right1 ,rip1 very funny1 very funny2 but what do you say to a glass of liquor1 ,rip8 ,,rip4 ,well1 now1 ,derrick1 what do ,i generally say to a glass8 ,i generally say it's a good ting1 don'd ,i8 ,und ,i generally say a good deal more to what is in it1 dan to de glass4 ,,von ,b4 ,certainly1 certainly6 ,say1 hallo1 there6 ,nick ,vedder1 bring out a bottle of your best6 ,,rip4 ,dat's right--fill 'em up4 ,you wouldn't believe1 ,derrick1 but dat is de first one ,i have had to-day4 ,i guess maybe de reason is1 ,i couldn't got it before4 ,ah1 ,derrick1 my score is too big6 ,well1 here is your good health und your family's--may dey all live long and prosper4 ,they drink4 ,ach6 you may well smack your lips1 und go ah1 ah6 over dat liquor4 ,you don'd give me such liquor like dat every day1 ,nick ,vedder4 ,well1 come on1 fill 'em up again4 ,git out mit dat water1 ,nick ,vedder1 ,i don'd want no water in my liquor4 ,good liquor und water1 ,nick ,vedder1 is just like man and wife1 dey don'd agree well togedder--dat's me und my wife1 any way4 ,well1 come on again4 ,here is your good health und your family's1 und may dey all live long und prosper6 ,,nick ,,vedder4 ,that's right1 ,rip2 drink away1 and drown your sorrows in the flowing bowl4 ,,rip4 ,drown my sorrows8 ,ya1 dat's all very well1 but she don'd drown4 ,my wife is my sorrow und you can't drown her2 she tried it once1 but she couldn't do it4 ,what1 didn't you hear about dat1 de day what ,gretchen she like to got drownded8 ,ach1 my2 dat's de funniest ting in de world4 ,i'll tell you all about it4 ,it was de same day what we got married4 ,i bet ,i don'd forget dat day so long what ,i live4 ,you know dat ,hudson ,river what dey git dem boats over--well1 dat's de same place4 ,well1 you know dat boat what ,gretchen she was a-goin' to come over in1 dat got upsetted--ya1 just went righd by der boddom4 ,but she wasn't in de boat4 ,oh1 no2 if she had been in de boat1 well1 den1 maybe she might have got drownded4 ,you can't tell anyting at all about a ting like dat6 ,,von ,b4 ,ah1 no2 but ,i'm sure1 ,rip1 if ,gretchen were to fall into the water now1 you would risk your life to save her4 ,,rip4 ,would ,i8 ,well1 ,i am not so sure about dat myself4 ,when we was first got married8 ,oh1 ya2 ,i know ,i would have done it den1 but ,i don'd know how it would be now4 ,but it would be a good deal more my duty now as it was den4 ,don'd you know1 ,derrick1 when a man gits married a long time--mit his wife1 he gits a good deal attached mit her1 und it would be a good deal more my duty now as it was den4 ,but ,i don'd know1 ,derrick4 ,i am afraid if ,gretchen should fall in de water now und should say1 ,rip1 ,rip6 help me oud--,i should say1 ,mrs4 ,van ,winkle1 ,i will just go home and tink about it4 ,oh1 no1 ,derrick2 if ,gretchen fall in de water now she's got to swim1 ,i told you dat--ha1 ha1 ha1 ha6 ,hullo6 dat's her a-comin' now2 ,i guess it's bedder ,i go oud6 ,exit ,,rip4 ,,act ,,ii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,rip ,van ,winkle2 ,gretchen1 his wife2 ,meenie1 their little daughter4 ,,scene3 ,the dimly lighted kitchen of ,rip's cottage4 ,shortly after his conversation with ,von ,beekman1 ,rip's wife catches him carousing and dancing upon the village green4 ,she drives him away in no very gentle fashion1 and he runs away from her only to carouse the more4 ,returning home after nightfall in a decidedly muddled condition1 he puts his head through the open window at the rear1 not observing his irate wife1 who stands in ambush behind the clothes-bars with her ever-ready broomstick1 to give him a warm reception1 but seeing only his little daughter ,meenie1 of whom he is very fond1 and who also loves him very tenderly4 ,,rip4 ,meenie6 ,meenie1 my darlin'6 ,,meenie4 ,hush-sh-h4 ,shaking finger1 to indicate the presence of her mother4 ,,rip4 ,eh6 what's de matter8 ,i don'd see not'ing1 my darlin'4 ,,meenie4 ',sh-sh-sh6 ,,rip4 ,eh6 what8 ,say1 ,meenie1 is de ole wild cat home8 ,,gretchen catches him quickly by the hair4 ,oh1 oh6 say1 is dat you1 ,gretchen8 ,say1 dere1 my darlin'1 my angel1 don'd do dat4 ,let go my head1 won'd you8 ,well1 den1 hold on to it so long what you like4 ,,gretchen releases him4 ,dere1 now1 look at dat1 see what you done--you gone pull out a whole handful of hair4 ,what you want to do a ting like dat for8 ,you must want a bald-headed husband1 don'd you8 ,,gretchen4 ,who was that you called a wild cat8 ,,rip4 ,who was dat ,i called a wild cat8 ,well1 now1 let me see1 who was dat ,i called a wild cat8 ,dat must 'a' been de same time ,i come in de winder dere1 wasn't it8 ,yes1 ,i know1 it was de same time4 ,well1 now1 let me see4 ,suddenly4 ,it was de dog ,schneider dat ,i call it4 ,,gretchen4 ,the dog ,schneider8 ,that's a likely story4 ,,rip4 ,why1 of course it is a likely story--ain't he my dog8 ,well1 den1 ,i call him a wild cat just so much what ,i like1 so dere now4 ,gretchen begins to weep4 ,oh1 well2 dere1 now1 don'd you cry1 don'd you cry1 ,gretchen2 you hear what ,i said8 ,lisden now4 ,if you don'd cry1 ,i nefer drink anoder drop of liquor in my life4 ,,gretchen crying4 ,oh1 ,rip6 you have said so many1 many times1 and you never kept your word yet4 ,,rip4 ,well1 ,i say it dis time1 and ,i mean it4 ,,gretchen4 ,oh1 ,rip6 if ,i could only trust you4 ,,rip4 ,you mustn't suspect me4 ,can't you see repentance in my eye8 ,,gretchen4 ,rip1 if you will only keep your word1 ,i shall be the happiest woman in the world4 ,,rip4 ,you can believe it4 ,i nefer drink anoder drop so long what ,i live1 if you don'd cry4 ,,gretchen4 ,oh1 ,rip1 how happy we shall be6 ,and you'll get back all the village1 ,rip1 just as you used to have it2 and you'll fix up our little house so nicely2 and you and ,i1 and our little darling ,meenie1 here--how happy we shall be6 ,,rip4 ,dere1 now6 you can be just so happy what you like4 ,go in de odder room1 go along mit you2 ,i come in dere pooty quick4 ,exit ,,gretchen and ,,meenie4 ,my6 ,i swore off from drinkin' so many1 many times1 and ,i never kept my word yet4 ,taking out bottle4 ,i don'd believe dere is more as one good drink in dat bottle1 anyway4 ,it's a pity to waste it6 ,you goin' to drink dat8 ,well1 now1 if you do1 it is de last one1 remember dat1 old feller4 ,well1 here is your goot held1 und-- ,enter ,,gretchen1 suddenly1 who snatches the bottle from him4 ,,gretchen4 ,oh1 you brute6 you paltry thief6 ,,rip4 ,hold on dere1 my dear1 you will spill de liquor4 ,,gretchen4 ,yes1 ,i will spill it1 you drunken scoundrel4 ,throwing away the bottle4 ,that's the last drop you ever drink under this roof4 ,,rip slowly1 after a moment's silence1 as if stunned by her severity4 ,eh6 what8 ,,gretchen4 ,out1 ,i say6 you drink no more here4 ,,rip4 ,what8 ,gretchen1 are you goin' to drive me away8 ,,gretchen4 ,yes6 ,acre by acre1 foot by foot1 you have sold everything that ever belonged to you for liquor4 ,thank ,heaven1 this house is mine1 and you can't sell it4 ,,rip rapidly sobering1 as he begins to realize the gravity of the situation4 ,yours8 ,yours8 ,ya1 you are right--it is yours2 ,i have got no home4 ,in broken tones1 almost sobbing4 ,but where will ,i go8 ,,gretchen4 ,anywhere6 out into the storm1 to the mountains4 ,there's the door--never let your face darken it again4 ,,rip4 ,what1 ,gretchen6 are you goin' to drive me away like a dog on a night like dis8 ,,gretchen4 ,yes2 out with you6 ,you have no longer a share in me or mine4 ,breaking down and sobbing with the intensity of her passion4 ,,rip very slowly and quietly1 but with great intensity4 ,well1 den1 ,i will go2 you have drive me away like a dog1 ,gretchen1 and ,i will go4 ,but remember1 ,gretchen1 after what you have told me here to-night1 ,i can never come back4 ,you have open de door for me to go2 you will never open it for me to return4 ,but1 ,gretchen1 you tell me dat ,i have no longer a chare here4 ,points at the child1 who kneels crying at his feet4 ,good-by with much emotion1 my darlin'4 ,god bless you6 ,don'd you nefer forgit your fader4 ,gretchen 7with a great sob71 ,i wipe de disgrace from your door4 ,good-by1 good-by6 ,exit ,,rip into the storm4 ,,footnote3 #hj ,adapted by ,mr4 ,a4 ,p4 ,burbank4 ,,the ,,rivals ,,richard ,,brinsley ,,sheridan ,,act ,i1 ,,scene ,,ii ,,characters3 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 with her bad grammar and ludicrous diction2 ,lydia ,languish1 in love with ,beverley2 ,sir ,anthony ,absolute1 choleric1 but kind-hearted4 ,,scene3 ,a dressing room in ,mrs4 ,malaprop's lodgings4 ,enter ,,mrs4 ,,malaprop1 ,,lydia1 and ,,sir ,,anthony ,,mrs4 ,,malaprop4 ,there1 ,sir ,anthony1 there stands the deliberate simpleton1 who wants to disgrace her family and lavish herself on a fellow not worth a shilling4 ,,lydia4 ,madam1 ,i thought you once-- ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,you thought1 miss6 ,i don't know any business you have to think at all3 thought does not become a young woman4 ,but the point we would request of you is1 that you will promise to forget this fellow--to illiterate him1 ,i say1 from your memory4 ,,lyd4 ,ah1 madam6 our memories are independent of our wills4 ,it is not so easy to forget4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,but ,i say it is1 miss6 there is nothing on earth so easy as to forget1 if a person chooses to set about it4 ,i'm sure ,i have as much forgot your poor dear uncle1 as if he had never existed2 and ,i thought it my duty so to do2 and let me tell you1 ,lydia1 these violent memories don't become a young woman4 ,,lyd4 ,what crime1 madam1 have ,i committed1 to be treated thus8 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter2 you know ,i have proof controvertible of it4 ,but tell me1 will you promise me to do as you are bid8 ,will you take a husband of your friend's choosing8 ,,lyd4 ,madam1 ,i must tell you plainly1 that1 had ,i no preference for any one else1 the choice you have made would be my aversion4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,what business have you1 miss1 with preference and aversion8 ,they don't become a young woman4 ,but1 suppose we were going to give you another choice1 will you promise us to give up this ,beverley8 ,,lyd4 ,could ,i belie my thoughts so far as to give that promise1 my actions would certainly as far belie my words4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,take yourself to your room6 ,you are fit company for nothing but your own ill humors4 ,,lyd4 ,willingly1 ma'am2 ,i cannot change for the worse4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,there's a little intricate hussy for you6 ,exit4 ,,sir ,a4 ,it is not to be wondered at1 ma'am2 all that is the natural consequence of teaching girls to read4 ,on my way hither1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 ,i observed your niece's maid coming forth from a circulating library3 from that moment1 ,i guessed how full of duty ,i should see her mistress6 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,those are vile places1 indeed6 ,,sir ,a4 ,madam1 a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge6 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,fie1 fie1 ,sir ,anthony6 you surely speak laconically4 ,,sir ,a4 ,why1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 in moderation1 now1 what would you have a woman know8 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,observe me1 ,sir ,anthony--,i would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning2 ,i don't think so much learning becomes a young woman2 for instance1 ,i would never let her meddle with ,greek1 or ,hebrew1 or ,algebra1 or ,simony1 or ,fluxions1 or ,paradoxes1 or such inflammatory branches of learning2 nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical1 astronomical1 diabolical instruments2 but1 ,sir ,anthony1 ,i would send her1 at nine years old1 to a boarding-school1 in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice4 ,then1 sir1 she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts2 and1 as she grew up1 ,i would have her instructed in geometry1 that she might know something of the contagious countries2 above all1 she would be taught orthodoxy4 ,this1 ,sir ,anthony1 is what ,i would have a woman know2 and ,i don't think there is a superstitious article in it4 ,,sir ,a4 ,well1 well1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 ,i will dispute the point no further with you2 though ,i must confess1 that you are a truly moderate and polite arguer1 for almost every third word you say is on my side of the question4--,but to the more important point in debate--you say you have no objection to my proposal8 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,none1 ,i assure you4 ,we have never seen your son1 ,sir ,anthony2 but ,i hope no objection on his side4 ,,sir ,a4 ,objection6--let him object1 if he dare6--,no1 no1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop2 ,jack knows that the least demur puts me in a frenzy directly4 ,my process was always very simple--in his younger days1 'twas ,jack1 do this1--if he demurred1 ,i knocked him down2 and1 if he grumbled at that1 ,i always sent him out of the room4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,aye1 and the properest way1 o' my conscience6--,nothing is so conciliating to young people as severity4 ,well1 ,sir ,anthony1 ,i shall give ,mr4 ,acres his discharge1 and prepare ,lydia to receive your son's invocations2 and ,i hope you will represent her to the ,captain as an object not altogether illegible4 ,,sir ,a4 ,madam1 ,i will handle the subject prudently4 ,i must leave you2 and let me beg you1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 to enforce this matter roundly to the girl--take my advice1 keep a tight hand--if she rejects this proposal1 clap her under lock and key2 and if you were just to let the servants forget to bring her dinner for three or four days1 you can't conceive how she'd come about4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,well1 at any rate1 ,i shall be glad to get her from under my jurisprudence4 ,exit4 ,,act ,,ii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,sir ,anthony ,absolute2 ,captain ,absolute1 his son4 ,,scene3 ,captain ,absolute's lodgings4 ,enter ,,sir ,,anthony and ,,captain ,,absolute ,,captain ,,absolute4 ,sir1 ,i am delighted to see you here1 and looking so well6 ,your sudden arrival at ,bath made me apprehensive for your health4 ,,sir ,,anthony4 ,very apprehensive1 ,i dare say1 ,jack4 ,what1 you are recruiting here1 hey8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,yes1 sir2 ,i am on duty4 ,,sir ,a4 ,well1 ,jack1 ,i am glad to see you1 though ,i did not expect it2 for ,i was going to write to you on a little matter of business4 ,jack1 ,i have been considering that ,i grow old and infirm1 and shall probably not trouble you long4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,pardon me1 sir1 ,i never saw you look more strong and hearty2 and ,i pray fervently that you may continue so4 ,,sir ,a4 ,i hope your prayers may be heard1 with all my heart4 ,well1 then1 ,jack1 ,i have been considering that ,i am so strong and hearty1 ,i may continue to plague you a long time4 ,now1 ,jack1 ,i am sensible that the income of your commission1 and what ,i have hitherto allowed you1 is but a small pittance for a lad of your spirit4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 you are very good4 ,,sir ,a4 ,and it is my wish1 while yet ,i live1 to have my boy make some figure in the world4 ,i have resolved1 therefore1 to fix you at once in a noble independence4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 your kindness overpowers me4 ,such generosity makes the gratitude of reason more lively than the sensations even of filial affection4 ,,sir ,a4 ,i am glad you are so sensible of my attention2 and you shall be master of a large estate in a few weeks4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,let my future life1 sir1 speak my gratitude4 ,i cannot express the sense ,i have of your munificence4 ,yet1 sir1 ,i presume you would not wish me to quit the army4 ,,sir ,a4 ,oh1 that shall be as your wife chooses4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,my wife1 sir6 ,,sir ,a4 ,aye1 aye1 settle that between you--settle that between you4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,a wife1 sir1 did you say8 ,,sir ,a4 ,aye1 a wife--why1 did not ,i mention her before8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,not a word of her1 sir4 ,,sir ,a4 ,upon my word1 ,i mustn't forget her1 though6 ,yes1 ,jack1 the independence ,i was talking of is by a marriage1--the fortune is saddled with a wife2 but ,i suppose that makes no difference8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 sir1 you amaze me6 ,,sir ,a4 ,what's the matter8 ,just now you were all gratitude and duty4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i was1 sir2 you talked to me of independence and a fortune1 but not one word of a wife4 ,,sir ,a4 ,why1 what difference does that make8 ,sir1 if you have the estate1 you must take it with the live stock on it1 as it stands4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,if my happiness is to be the price1 ,i must beg leave to decline the purchase4 ,pray1 sir1 who is the lady8 ,,sir ,a4 ,what's that to you1 sir8 ,come1 give me your promise to love1 and to marry her directly4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sure1 sir1 that's not very reasonable1 to summon my affections for a lady ,i know nothing of6 ,,sir ,a4 ,i am sure1 sir1 'tis more unreasonable in you to object to a lady you know nothing of4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,you must excuse me1 sir1 if ,i tell you1 once for all1 that on this point ,i cannot obey you4 ,,sir ,a4 ,hark you1 ,jack6 ,i have heard you for some time with patience2 ,i have been cool--quite cool2 but take care2 you know ,i am compliance itself1 when ,i am not thwarted2 no one more easily led--when ,i have my own way2 but don't put me in a frenzy4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 ,i must repeat it2 in this ,i cannot obey you4 ,,sir ,a4 ,now1 shoot me1 if ever ,i call you ,jack again while ,i live6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,nay1 sir1 but hear me4 ,,sir ,a4 ,sir1 ,i won't hear a word--not a word6--not one word6 ,so1 give me your promise by a nod2 and ,i'll tell you what1 ,jack1--,i mean1 you dog1--if you don't-- ,,capt4 ,a4 ,what1 sir1 promise to link myself to some mass of ugliness2 to-- ,,sir ,a4 ,sir1 the lady shall be as ugly as ,i choose2 she shall have a lump on each shoulder2 she shall be as crooked as the crescent2 her one eye shall roll like the bull's in ,cox's mu-se-um2 she shall have a skin like a mummy1 and the beard of a ,jew2 she shall be all this1 sir6 yet ,i'll make you ogle her all day1 and sit up all night to write sonnets on her beauty6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,this is reason and moderation1 indeed6 ,,sir ,a4 ,none of your sneering1 puppy6--no grinning1 jackanapes6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,indeed1 sir1 ,i never was in a worse humor for mirth in my life4 ,,sir ,a4 ',tis false1 sir6 ,i know you are laughing in your sleeve2 ,i know you'll grin when ,i am gone1 sir6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 ,i hope ,i know my duty better4 ,,sir ,a4 ,none of your passion1 sir6 none of your violence1 if you please6 ,it won't do with me1 ,i promise you4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,indeed1 sir1 ,i never was cooler in my life4 ,,sir ,a4 ,i know you are in a passion in your heart2 ,i know you are1 you hypocritical young dog6 ,but it won't do6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,nay1 sir1 upon my word-- ,,sir ,a4 ,so1 you will fly out8 ,can't you be cool1 like me8 ,what good can passion do8 ,passion is of no service1 you impudent1 insolent1 overbearing reprobate6 ,there1 you sneer again6 ,don't provoke me6 ,but you rely upon the mildness of my temper1 you do1 you dog6 ,you play upon the meekness of my disposition6 ,yet take care2 the patience of a saint may be overcome at last6 ,but1 mark6 ,i give you six hours and a half to consider of this3 if you then agree1 without any condition1 to do everything on earth that ,i choose1 why1 ,i may1 in time1 forgive you4 ,if not1 don't enter the same hemisphere with me2 don't dare to breathe the same air1 or use the same light1 with me2 but get an atmosphere and a sun of your own6 ,i'll strip you of your commission2 ,i'll lodge a five-and-threepence in the hands of trustees1 and you shall live on the interest6 ,i'll disown you1 ,i'll disinherit you6 ,i'll never call you ,jack again6 ,exit4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,mild1 gentle1 considerate father6 ,i kiss your hand4 ,,act ,,iii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,sir ,anthony ,absolute2 ,captain ,absolute4 ,,scene3 ,the ,north ,parade4 ,captain ,absolute has discovered that the lady whom his father so peremptorily commanded him to marry is none other than ,lydia ,languish with whom he1 under the name of ,beverley1 was plotting an elopement4 ,enter ,,captain ,,absolute ,,capt4 ,a4 ',tis just as ,fag told me1 indeed6--,whimsical enough1 'faith6 ,my father wants to force me to marry the very girl ,i am plotting to run away with6 ,he must not know of my connection with her yet awhile4 ,he has too summary a method of proceeding in these matters2 however1 ,i'll read my recantation instantly4 ,my conversion is something sudden1 indeed2 but ,i can assure him1 it is very sincere4--,so1 so1 here he comes4 ,he looks plaguy gruff6 ,steps aside4 ,enter ,,sir ,,anthony ,,sir ,a4 ,no--,i'll die sooner than forgive him6 ,die1 did ,i say8 ,i'll live these fifty years to plague him4 ,at our last meeting1 his impudence had almost put me out of temper--an obstinate1 passionate1 self-willed boy6 ,this is my return for putting him1 at twelve years old1 into a marching regiment1 and allowing him fifty pounds a year1 besides his pay1 ever since6 ,but ,i have done with him--he's anybody's son for me--,i never will see him more--never--never--never--never4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,now for a penitential face6 ,comes forward4 ,,sir ,a4 ,fellow1 get out of my way6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 you see a penitent before you4 ,,sir ,a4 ,i see an impudent scoundrel before me4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,a sincere penitent4 ,i am come1 sir1 to acknowledge my error1 and to submit entirely to your will4 ,,sir ,a4 ,what's that8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i have been revolving1 and reflecting1 and considering on your past goodness1 and kindness1 and condescension to me4 ,,sir ,a4 ,well1 sir8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i have been likewise weighing and balancing1 what you were pleased to mention concerning duty1 and obedience1 and authority4 ,,sir ,a4 ,why1 now you talk sense1 absolute sense2 ,i never heard anything more sensible in my life4 ,confound you1 you shall be ,jack again6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i am happy in the appellation4 ,,sir ,a4 ,why then1 ,jack1 my dear ,jack1 ,i will now inform you who the lady really is4 ,nothing but your passion and violence1 you silly fellow1 prevented me telling you at first4 ,prepare1 ,jack1 for wonder and rapture--prepare6 ,what think you of ,miss ,lydia ,languish8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,languish6 ,what1 the ,languishes of ,worcestershire8 ,,sir ,a4 ,worcestershire6 ,no6 ,did you never meet ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 and her niece1 ,miss ,languish1 who came into our country just before you were last ordered to your regiment8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,malaprop6 ,languish6 ,i don't remember ever to have heard the name before4 ,yet1 stay3 ,i think ,i do recollect something4 ,languish1 ,languish6 ,she squints1 don't she8 ,a little red-haired girl8 ,,sir ,a4 ,squints6 ,a red-haired girl6 ,zounds1 no6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,then ,i must have forgot2 it can't be the same person4 ,,sir ,a4 ,jack1 ,jack6 what think you of blooming1 love-breathing seventeen8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,as to that1 sir1 ,i am quite indifferent3 if ,i can please you in the matter1 'tis all ,i desire4 ,,sir ,a4 ,nay1 but1 ,jack1 such eyes6 such eyes6 so innocently wild6 so bashfully irresolute6 ,not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love6 ,then1 ,jack1 her cheeks6 her cheeks1 ,jack6 so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes6 ,then1 ,jack1 her lips6 ,oh1 ,jack1 lips1 smiling at their own discretion6 and1 if not smiling1 more sweetly pouting1 more lovely in sullenness6 ,then1 ,jack1 her neck6 ,oh6 ,jack6 ,jack6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,and which is to be mine1 sir2 the niece1 or the aunt8 ,,sir ,a4 ,why1 you unfeeling1 insensible puppy1 ,i despise you6 ,when ,i was of your age1 such a description would have made me fly like a rocket6 ,the aunt1 indeed6 ,odds life6 when ,i ran away with your mother1 ,i would not have touched anything old or ugly to gain an empire4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,not to please your father1 sir8 ,,sir ,a4 ,to please my father--zounds6 not to please--,oh6 my father8 ,oddso6 yes1 yes6 if my father1 indeed1 had desired--that's quite another matter4 ,though he wasn't the indulgent father that ,i am1 ,jack4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i dare say not1 sir4 ,,sir ,a4 ,but1 ,jack1 you are not sorry to find your mistress is so beautiful8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,sir1 ,i repeat it1 if ,i please you in this affair1 'tis all ,i desire4 ,not that ,i think a woman the worse for being handsome2 but1 sir1 if you please to recollect1 you before hinted something about a hump or two1 one eye1 and a few more graces of that kind4 ,now1 without being very nice1 ,i own ,i should rather choose a wife of mine to have the usual number of limbs1 and a limited quantity of back2 and though one eye may be very agreeable1 yet1 as the prejudice has always run in favor of two1 ,i would not wish to affect a singularity in that article4 ,,sir ,a4 ,what a phlegmatic sot it is6 ,why1 sirrah1 you are an anchorite6 a vile1 insensible stock6 ,you a soldier6 you're a walking block1 fit only to dust the company's regimentals on6 ,odds life1 ,i've a great mind to marry the girl myself6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i am entirely at your disposal1 sir2 if you should think of addressing ,miss ,languish yourself1 ,i suppose you would have me marry the aunt2 or if you should change your mind1 and take the old lady1 'tis the same to me--,i'll marry the niece4 ,,sir ,a4 ,upon my word1 ,jack1 thou art either a very great hypocrite1 or--but1 come1 ,i know your indifference on such a subject must be all a lie--,i'm sure it must4 ,come1 now1 off with your demure face2 come1 confess1 ,jack1 you have been lying1 ha'nt you8 ,you have been playing the hypocrite1 hey8 ,i'll never forgive you1 if you ha'nt been lying and playing the hypocrite4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,i am sorry1 sir1 that the respect and duty which ,i bear to you1 should be so mistaken4 ,,sir ,a4 ,hang your respect and duty6 ,but come along with me4 ,i'll write a note to ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 and you shall visit the lady directly4 ,her eyes shall be the ,promethean torch to you2 come along1 ,i'll never forgive you1 if you don't come back stark mad with rapture and impatience2 if you don't1 'egad1 ,i'll marry the girl myself6 ,exeunt4 ,,act ,,iv1 ,,scene ,,ii ,,characters3 ,mrs4 ,malaprop2 ,lydia2 ,captain ,absolute known to ,lydia as ,beverley2 ,sir ,anthony2 ,servant4 ,enter ,,mrs4 ,,malaprop and ,,lydia ,,mrs ,m4 ,why1 thou perverse one6--tell me what you can object to in him8--,isn't he a handsome man8--tell me that4 ,a genteel man8 a pretty figure of a man8 ,,lyd4 ,she little thinks whom she is praising4 ,aside4 ,so is ,beverley1 ma'am4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,no caparisons1 miss1 if you please4 ,caparisons don't become a young woman4 ,no6 ,captain ,absolute is indeed a fine gentleman4 ,,lyd4 ,ay1 the ,captain ,absolute you have seen4 ,aside4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,then he's so well bred2--so full of alacrity and adulation6--,he has so much to say for himself1 in such good language1 too4 ,his physiognomy so grammatical2 then his presence so noble6 ,i protest1 when ,i saw him1 ,i thought of what ,hamlet says in the play3--,hesperian curls--the front of ,job himself6 an eye1 like ,march1 to threaten at command6 a station1 like ,harry ,mercury1 new--,something about kissing--on a hill--however1 the similitude struck me directly4 ,,lyd4 ,how enraged she'll be presently1 when she discovers her mistake6 ,aside4 ,enter ,,servant ,,serv4 ,sir ,anthony and ,captain ,absolute are below1 ma'am4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,show them up here4 ,exit ,,servant4 ,now1 ,lydia1 ,i insist on your behaving as becomes a young woman4 ,show your good breeding1 at least1 though you have forgot your duty4 ,,lyd4 ,madam1 ,i have told you my resolution2 ,i shall not only give him no encouragement1 but ,i won't even speak to1 or look at him4 ,flings herself into a chair1 with her face from the door4 ,enter ,,sir ,,anthony and ,,captain ,,absolute ,,sir ,a4 ,here we are1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop2 come to mitigate the frowns of unrelenting beauty1--and difficulty enough ,i had to bring this fellow4 ,i don't know what's the matter1 but if ,i had not held him by force he'd have given me the slip4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,you have infinite trouble1 ,sir ,anthony1 in the affair4 ,i am ashamed for the cause6 ,lydia1 ,lydia1 rise1 ,i beseech you6--pay your respects6 ,aside to her4 ,,sir ,a4 ,i hope1 madam1 that ,miss ,languish has reflected on the worth of this gentleman1 and the regard due to her aunt's choice1 and my alliance4 ,now1 ,jack1 speak to her4 ,aside to him4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,what the devil shall ,i do8 ,aside4--,you see1 sir1 she won't even look at me while you are here4 ,i knew she wouldn't6--,i told you so4--,let me entreat you1 sir1 to leave us together6 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,i am sorry to say1 ,sir ,anthony1 that my affluence over my niece is very small4 ,turn round1 ,lydia1 ,i blush for you6 ,aside to her4 ,,sir ,a4 ,why don't you begin1 ,jack8 ,zounds6 sirrah6 why don't you speak8 ,aside to him4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,hem6 hem6 ,madam--hem6 ,,captain ,,absolute attempts to speak1 then returns to ,,sir ,,anthony4 ',faith6 sir1 ,i am so confounded6--and so--so confused6 ,i told you ,i should be so1 sir1--,i knew it4 ,the--the tremor of my passion entirely takes away my presence of mind4 ,,sir ,a4 ,but it don't take away your voice1 does it8 ,go up1 and speak to her directly6 ,,capt4 ,a4 draws near ,,lydia4 ,aside4 ,now heaven send she may be too sullen to look round6 ,i must disguise my voice4--,will not ,miss ,languish lend an ear to the mild accents of true love8 ,will not-- ,,sir ,a4 ,why don't you speak out8--not stand croaking like a frog in a quinsey6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,the--the--excess of my awe1 and my--my modesty quite choke me6 ,,sir ,a4 ,ah6 your modesty again6 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 ,i wish the lady would favor us with something more than a side-front4 ,,mrs4 ,,malaprop seems to chide ,,lydia4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,so6 all will out1 ,i see6 ,goes up to ,,lydia1 speaks softly4 ,be not surprised1 my ,lydia1 suppress all surprise at present4 ,,lyd4 aside4 ,heavens6 'tis ,beverley's voice6--,looks round by degrees1 then starts up4 ,is this possible6--my ,beverley6 how can this be8--my ,beverley6 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,ah6 'tis all over6 ,aside4 ,,sir ,a4 ,beverley6--the devil--,beverley6 ,what can the girl mean8 ,this is my son1 ,jack ,absolute4 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,for shame6 for shame6--your head runs so on that fellow1 that you have him always in your eyes6 beg ,captain ,absolute's pardon1 directly4 ,,lyd4 ,i see no ,captain ,absolute1 but my loved ,beverley6 ,,sir ,a4 ,zounds1 the girl's mad6--her brain's turned by reading6 ,,mrs4 ,m4 ,o' my conscience1 ,i believe so6--what do you mean by ,beverley8--you saw ,captain ,absolute before to-day1 there he is3 your husband that shall be4 ,,lyd4 ,with all my soul1 ma'am--when ,i refuse my ,beverley-- ,,sir ,a4 ,oh6 she's as mad as ,bedlam6--or has this fellow been playing us a rogue's trick8 ,come here1 sirrah1 who the devil are you8 ,,capt4 ,a4 ',faith1 sir1 ,i am not quite clear myself2 but ,i'll endeavor to recollect4 ,,sir ,a4 ,are you my son1 or not8--answer for your mother1 you dog1 if you won't for me4 ,,capt4 ,a4 ,ye powers of impudence1 befriend me6--,aside4--,sir ,anthony1 most assuredly ,i am your wife's son2 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 ,i am your most respectful admirer1 and shall be proud to add affectionate nephew4 ,i need not tell my ,lydia that she sees her faithful ,beverley1 who1 knowing the singular generosity of her temper1 assumed that name1 and a station1 which has proved a test of the most disinterested love1 which he now hopes to enjoy1 in a more elevated character4 ,,lyd4 ,so6--there will be no elopement after all6 ,,sir ,a4 ,upon my soul1 ,jack1 thou art a very impudent fellow6 ,to do you justice1 ,i think ,i never saw a piece of more consummate assurance6 ,well1 ,i am glad you are not the dull insensible varlet you pretend to be1 however6 ,i'm glad you have made a fool of your father1 you dog--,i am4 ,so1 this was your penitence1 your duty1 and obedience6 ,ah6 you dissembling villain6 ,come1 we must leave them together1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop2 they long to fly into each other's arms4 ,i warrant6 ,come1 ,mrs4 ,malaprop1 we'll not disturb their tenderness2 theirs is the time of life for happiness6 ,sings4 ,youth's the season made for joy--hey6 odds life6 ,i'm in such spirits6 ,permit me1 ma'am4 ,gives his hand to ,,mrs4 ,,malaprop4 ,exit singing1 and handing her off4 ,exit ,,captain ,,absolute with ,,lydia in the opposite direction4 ,,beau ,,brummell ,,blanchard ,,jerrold ,,act ,i1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,beau ,brummell1 a fastidious aristocrat with luxurious tastes and a depleted fortune2 ,isidore1 his valet2 ,mr4 ,fotherby1 his aspiring young protege4 ,,scene3 ,a handsome apartment in ,brummell's house1 ,calais1 ,france4 ,isidore discovered1 in chair1 looking over his master's toilette table4 ,,isidore4 ,twenty shirts a week1 twenty-four pocket-handkerchiefs1 to say nothing of thirty cravats and twelve waistcoats--indeed1 for people that cannot pay their servants6 ,well1 he owes me just six thousand three hundred and thirty-seven francs1 ten sous4 ,picks up paper4 ,ah1 ,i see1 ,i'm in the list4 ,it costs something to have the honor of serving ,mr4 ,brummell--to be chamberlain to ,his ,majesty1 the ,king of ,calais6 ,but he is a wonderful man6 ,people almost thank him for condescending to be in their debt2 still1 much as ,i esteem the honor1 ,i can't afford it any longer1 nor can the laundress1 nor can the hairdresser4 ,eight hundred francs a year for washing6 ,three clean shirts a day1 three cravats6 ,boots blacked1 soles and all1 and with such varnish6 ,but then he has such exquisite taste6 why1 he blackballed a friend of his who wanted to enter his club1 because the candidate's boots were polished with bad blacking4 ,i wonder whether the king will do anything for him8 ,it is ,mr4 ,brummell's dressing hour1 and here he comes4 ,enter ,,brummell1 letter in hand4 ,,isidore busies himself piling cravats upon the side of dressing table1 and wheels chair to the mirror4 ,,brummell throws himself in the chair before the glass1 examines the cravats and throws two or three of them away4 ,,brummell4 ,isidore1 take those dusters away2 the chambermaid has forgotten them4 ,re-reads the letter4 ,strange girl this2 the only thing ,i know against her is that she takes soup twice4 ,it's the old story4 ,her father wants her to marry a fellow who can keep her1 and she wants to have a young fellow who can't4 ,well1 the young fellow who can't is the more interesting of the two4 ,i must ask the father to dinner ,i suppose--it's a deuced bore2 but it will put him under a heavy obligation4 ,i must make excuses to ,ballarat and ,gill4 ,isidore1 when ,i'm dressed take my compliments to ,mr4 ,davis1 and tell him ,i shall be happy to see him at dinner to-day4 ,,isid4 ,very well1 sir4 ,aside4 ,to ,davis1 a retired fellow from the city6 ,this is a tumble6--,i am sorry to trouble you1 sir1 but---- ,,brum4 ,i can't talk to you to-day1 ,isidore4 ,give me a cravat4 ,,isid4 handing one4 ,i am a poor man1 and six thousand francs---- ,,brum4 ,i understand1 ,isidore4 ,we'll see--we'll see2 don't disturb me4 ,zounds6 man1 haven't you been long enough with me to know that these are not moments when ,i can speak or listen8 ,bell rings4 ,if that be ,mr4 ,fotherby1 show him in4 ,exit ,,isidore4 ,i intend to form that young fellow--there's stuff in him4 ,i've noticed that he uses my blacking4 ,enter ,,fotherby followed by ,,isidore4 ,how d'e do1 ,fotherby8 ,,fotherby4 ,this admittance is an honor1 indeed1 sir6 ,,brum4 ,my dear fellow1 why1 what do you call those things upon your feet8 ,,fother4 ,things on my feet6 ,shoes1 to be sure6 ,,brum4 ,shoes6 ,i thought they were slippers6 ,,fother4 ,you prefer boots then1 sir1 doubtless8 ,,brum4 ,well1 let me see4 ,humph6 ,isidore1 which do ,i prefer1 boots or shoes8 ,,isid4 ,the ,hessian was always your favorite1 sir1 in ,london4 ,,brum4 ,right1 ,isidore--so it was4 ,by-the-bye1 ,i have asked ,davis here to-day4 ,it was a great sacrifice2 but as you and the young lady want to have the old gentleman melted1 ,i resigned myself4 ,i hope he'll keep his knife out of his mouth4 ,,fother4 ,we shall be eternally grateful to you1 sir4 ,he wanted ,helen to become old ,armand's wife next week4 ,,brum4 ,i think he's right2 and but for one circumstance1 ,i should be on ,armand's side of the question4 ,,fother4 ,and this circumstance8 ,,brum4 ,the brute has a toothpick in his waistcoat pocket1 or in the thing that serves him for a waistcoat--an instrument that1 he says1 has been in his family the last fifty years4 ,conceive1 my dear ,fotherby1 an hereditary toothpick6 ,no1 ,mr4 ,davis does not deserve that fate4 ,and now let me give you a bit of advice4 ,never wear perfumes1 but fine linen1 plenty of it1 and country washing4 ,look at you now1 my good fellow1 you are dressed in execrable taste--all black and white1 like a magpie4 ,still1 never be remarkable4 ,the severest mortification a gentleman can incur1 is to attract observation in the street by his dress4 ,everything should fit without a fault4 ,you can't tell what this has cost me--but then it is a coat--while that thing you wear--,i really don't know what we can call it4 ,,fother4 ,still1 sir1 under your guidance ,i shall improve4 ,by the way1 my mother asked me to invite you to take tea with us in our humble way4 ,,brum4 ,really1 my good young friend1 you surprise me4 ,don't you know that you take medicine--you take a walk--you take a liberty--but you drink tea6 ,my dear ,fotherby1 never be bearer of such a dreadful message again4 ,isidore6 has my ,paris wig arrived8 ,any card or letter8 ,,isid4 ,no cards1 sir4 ,the wig arrived by the diligence4 ,,brun4 ,is the wig fit to put on8 ,,isid4 ,i have been examining it1 and1 as the times go1 ,i think it will do4 ,there is one of the side locks not quite to my taste4 ,,brum4 ,ah6 a mat1 no doubt--a door-mat6 ,exit ,,isidore4 ,to ,,fotherby4 ,you see what a gentleman may be reduced to6 ,it's the most fortunate thing in the world that ,i never fell in love6 ,,fother4 ,but were you never in love8--never engaged8 ,,brum4 ,engaged8--why1 yes1 something of the kind2 but ,i discovered that the lady positively ate cabbage1 and so ,i broke it off4 ,,fother4 ,and so1 sir1 you will persuade the old gentleman to postpone ,helen's marriage with ,armand--while ,i---- ,,brum4 ,my dear young friend1 ,i will tell the old gentleman to do so--you must see that ,i could not possibly think of persuading a person who grows onions in his garden---- ,,fother4 ,we shall be eternally grateful---- ,,brum4 ,for three weeks exactly--from which time you1 at all events1 will begin to wish that ,i had confined my attention to my own particular affairs4 ,but the world is ungrateful4 ,i once waved my hand to a saddler's son from ,white's window4 ,well1 sir1 ,i owed him five hundred pounds1 and he had afterwards the assurance to ask me for it4 ,,fother4 ,you astonish me6 ,,brum4 ,positive fact4 ,so be cautious1 young man1 and in your way through life--if you wave your hand to such a fellow1 let it be over a stamped receipt4 ,,fother4 ,i shall follow your counsel most scrupulously4 ,,brum4 ,there1 sir1 never let me see you again in those gloves6 ,these1 sir1 showing his are the only gloves for a gentleman4 ,pray leave me--,i can't bear the sight of them4 ,meantime1 tell your betrothed that ,i shall do everything in my power to secure your unhappiness4 ,i have already spoken to ,lord ,ballarat about you4 ,i told him you were the laziest fellow and the best dresser in the town--in fact1 cut out by nature to serve the government4 ,good-bye--,i shall ask you to dine with me some of these days--but not yet awhile--you must work up to that4 ,and now1 ,fotherby1 to show you how deep an interest ,i take in your welfare1 you shall give me your arm to the ramparts4 ,exeunt4 ,,act ,,ii1 ,,scene ,,iii ,,characters3 ,brummell2 ,isidore2 ,fotherby2 ,nurse2 another ,old ,woman2 ,landlord2 ,waiter4 ,,scene3 ,brummell's lodgings in a miserable apartment house at ,caen1 ,france4 ,eight years have elapsed4 ,with no means of livelihood and pursued by creditors1 ,brummell is now reduced to abject poverty1 broken health1 and a deranged mind4 ,he is thrown among people of low rank and is subjected to many indignities2 but to the last he clings to his fastidious tastes and is a gentleman among imaginary aristocrats4 ,,old ,,nurse4 in high ,norman cap1 discovered seated in arm chair1 mending stockings2 another ,,woman near her4 ,,nurse4 ,yes1 my dear1 clean out of his mind--that's what he's gone4 ,,old ,,woman4 ,deary me6 ,,nurse4 ,aye1 and there be folks as says he was once as neat and tidy as a new sixpence4 ,now he's as dirty as a ,george the ,first halfpenny6 ,,old ,w4 ,deary me6 ,,nurse4 ,aye1 child1 and he knew lords and dooks--and such like--now it's anybody as'll give him a dinner4 ,it's time they did something with him--for put up with his going's on any longer1 ,i cannot6 ,a nuss's is a horrid life1 ain't it1 child8 ,,old ,w4 ',orrid--deary me6 ,so this very afternoon that's comin'1 he's to go8 ,,nurse4 ,aye1 child--the landlord's goin' to offer to take him for a walk1 which'll please him--and then take him off to see if the nuns'll have charity upon him--if not1 there's nothing but the street4 ,he wouldn't go if he know'd it--still he hasn't a copper coin--he's as cunning as any fox4 ,have a little drop of somethin' comfortable1 child6 ,,old ,w4 ,deary me6--at this time of day--but ,i do feel a sinking6 ,,nurse4 ,it'll do you a world of good4 ,getting bottle--a knock4 ,lawk6 what an awkward hour for people to call6 ,knock again4 ,,old ,w4 ,deary me6 ,perhaps it's ,mr4 ,brummell4 ,,nurse4 ,not it6 ,it's more than he dare do1 to knock twice like that4 ,it's his old man-servant1 come to take off that there dirty screen4 ,opens door4 ,enter ,,brummell--muddy--supported by ,,isidore ,,brum4 ,isidore1 give me my dressing gown6 ,,isid4 ,dressing gown6 that's good--why ,i never put my own on nowadays6 ,,brum4 talking to himself4 ,that screen mustn't go--nor the duchess's armchair4 ,turning to ,,nurse4 ,mind that1 nurse1 whatever happens to me1 this chair and the screen remain4 ,ha6 ha6 what would ,ballarat say1 if---- ,,nurse4 ,there1 never mind them folks4 ,pull your coat off1 and put your dressing gown on1 do6 ,,brum4 ,dear me6 ,i hope the ices will be better--the punch ,i've seen to6 ,the duchess shall sit here4 ,,nurse to ,,old ,,woman4 ,that's how he goes on nearly every day4 ,the high folks he knew have turned his head4 ,sometimes he makes one of the waiters announce a lot of folks1 as never come1 while he1 like an old fool1 bows to nobody1 and hands nothing to that old chair4 ,,old ,w4 ,what work it must give you4 ,,nurse to ,,brummell4 ,there1 take that muddy coat off1 nobody's coming to-day4 ,,brum4 ,leave the room and see that everything is ready4 ,,nurse4 ,drat it4 ,rings the bell4 ,i must have the waiter up4 ,he'll soon manage him4 ,,brum4 rising1 totters forward1 and arranges his shabby dress4 ,well1 now ,i'm ready6 ,hark6 ,i think ,i hear the first carriage4 ,sir ,harry1 no doubt4 ,enter ,,waiter ,,nurse4 ,just see to this old man--make him change his coat1 for ,i can't4 ,,waiter4 ,well1 this is the last of it4 ,master says he may sleep in the streets1 but he doesn't stay here another night if he knows it4 ,they won't have him at the asylum without money1 and he hasn't a rap4 ,,nurse4 ,nor a stick2 for there's little enough left to pay my poor wages4 ,,waiter to ,,brummell4 ,come1 off with the coat6 ,,brum4 ,my good fellow1 leave it me to-night4 ,i've a few friends coming4 ,hush6 there's the first arrival4 ,pray1 my good sir1 see to my guests4 ,,waiter4 ,well1 let's humor the old blade once more--he'll be in the streets to-morrow4 ,,nurse to ,,old ,,woman4 ,just notice this tomfoolery1 child4 ,,old ,w4 ,deary me6 it almost frightens me4 ,see how pleased he is4 ,,waiter4 ,sir ,harry ,gill6 ,,brum4 advancing ceremoniously1 and holding out his hand1 and coming down1 as though talking to somebody at his side4 ,my dear ,harry1 ,i'm delighted to see you4 ,were you at the opera last night8 ,,nurse to ,,old ,,woman4 ,did you ever hear the like of it8 ,,waiter4 ,here goes again6 ,goes as before to door1 and throws it open4 ,lord ,ballarat6 ,,brum4 advancing as before1 and receiving imaginary visitor4 ,my good fellow1 ,i'm sorry ,i missed you at the club the other night2 but ,i went into the duchess's box1 and---- ,,waiter4 ,i must stop this4 ,the duchess always comes last1 and then he's satisfied4 ,throwing open the door1 and calling pompously4 ,her ,highness the ,duchess of ,canterbury4 ,,brum4 totters to door1 bowing very profoundly1 and handing the imaginary duchess to his armchair--leans over the chair1 and bows frequently as he talks4 ,your highness is too good6 ,this is indeed an honor4 ,permit me the satisfaction of handing you to your seat4 ,and is the duke well8 ,and little ,nutmeg--is his ear better8 ,poor little fellow6 ,i hope you will allow me to give him a charming little collar ,i have for him4 ,,waiter4 ,there1 that'll do6 ,to ,,brummell4 ,come1 now1 they're all gone--take your coat off4 ,,brum4 starting1 and falling into chair4 ,yes1 gone--gone--true--they're gone6 ,,waiter helps him to take his coat off4 ,give me my cap6 ,,nurse puts his old velvet cap on4 ,,waiter4 going4 ,call me up again1 nurse1 if he won't mind you4 ,do you hear what ,i say1 ,mr4 ,brummell8 ,,brum4 ,yes--yes--,i'll be very good1 nurse--,i'll be very good4 ,,waiter4 ,well1 it will be a lucky day when we get rid of this business6 ,exit4 ,,old ,w4 ,but think of the poor creature turned into the streets6 ,he'd die upon the nighest door-step6 ,,nurse4 ,can't be helped--out he goes to-night and no mistake6 ,i'll nuss him no longer--and the landlord wants the room4 ,the men are comin' to whitewash it at sunrise to-morrow4 ,,old ,w4 ,deary me6 ,well--good-day6 ,,nurse4 ,good-day1 child4 ,you'll find me at home to-morrow4 ,good-bye6 ,exit ,,old ,,woman4 ,,brum4 tottering to an old bureau1 sits before it4 ,dinner at four4 ,nurse1 nurse6 my glass and razors--come6 ,,nurse4 ,drat the old man6 ,gives him glass1 etc4 ,enter ,,landlord1 followed by ,,waiter ,now he's completely done up6 ,,brum4 politely to ,,landlord4 ,good morning1 monsieur1 delighted to see---- ,,landlord4 ,hang your compliments--,i want no more of them4 ,,brum4 ,my good sir1 you surprise me6 ,,land4 to ,,waiter4 ,get his rubbish together--for out he goes1 and no mistake4 ,to ,,brummell4 ,now1 ,mr4 ,brummell1 can you pay me--or can't you--or won't you8 ,,brum4 ,dear1 dear me6 ,we'll talk about it4 ,,land4 ,no1 we won't4 ,i'll have it--or out you bundle this minute4 ,,brum4 rising4 ,sir1 ,i am a gentleman--a poor one1 it is true2 and this hand1 fleshless as it is--is strong enough to chastise a man who forgets it6 ,,brummell falls back in chair exhausted4 ,,land4 to ,,waiter4 ,now for it--out with him6 ,,landlord and ,,waiter rush forward1 and are about to seize ,,brummell4 ,enter ,,fotherby ,,fother4 pushing back ,,landlord and ,,waiter4 ,put your hands on the old man at your peril4 ,,land4 ,do you know that you are in my house1 sir8--stand back6 ,,fother4 ,do you know that you are in my rooms1 sir8 ,throws paper to him4 ,i think you will find that regular4 ,leave the room4 ,,nurse aside4 ,wonders'll never cease4 ,but the old fool'll spile all again--you'll see4 ,,land4 aside to ,waiter4 ,he's paid missus the rent--there's luck6 ,exit4 ,,waiter4 ,a pretty bit of business ,i've done for myself4 ,not a sou for the waiter1 ,i'll bet4 ,exit4 ,,fother4 advancing to ,,brummell4 ,my dear ,mr4 ,brummell4 ,,brum4 ,really1 you have the advantage of me4 ,,fother4 ,you surely remember me1 ,mr4 ,brummell4 ,to ,,nurse4 ,the good sisters will take care of him for the rest of his days4 ,i must take him to them4 ,is he always so1 my good woman8 ,,nurse4 ,poor dear1 good1 kind old gentleman1 not allays4 ,he takes on so at times4 ,,brum4 ,don't know you in the least4 ,imagines he sees ,ballarat4 ,ballarat6 dear old boy6 ,tut6 tut6 ,ballarat6 ,well1 this is kind4 ,but ,i can't be seen in this state4 ,,fother4 ,no4 ,here you are among friends1 my good sir4 ,leading him out4 ,this way1 ,mr4 ,brummell1 ,i come from ,lord ,ballarat4 ,,brum4 ,well--be it so4 ,ballarat--mind--when you return to ,england let them know that1 even in this squalor--to his last hour in the world--,brummell--poor ,brummell was a gentleman still4 ,i am ready--,i am ready4 ,exit ,,fotherby1 leading ,,brummell1 the ,,nurse following4 ,,the ,,set ,,of ,,turquoise ,,thomas ,,bailey ,,aldrich ,,act ,i1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,count of ,lara1 a poor nobleman2 ,beatrice1 his wife ,miriam1 a maid1 who personates a page4 ,,scene3 ,count of ,lara's villa4 ,a balcony overlooking the garden4 ,,lara4 ,the third moon of our marriage1 ,beatrice6 ,it hangs in the still twilight1 large and full1 ,like a ripe orange4 ,,beatrice4 ,like an orange8 yes1 ,but not so red1 ,count4 ,then it has no stem4 ,now1 as 'tis hidden by those drifts of cloud1 ,with one thin edge just glimmering through the dark1 ',tis like some strange1 rich jewel of the east1 ,in the cleft side of a mountain4 ,and that reminds me--speaking of jewels--love1 ,there is a set of turquoise at ,malan's1 ,ear-drops and bracelets and a necklace--ah6 ,if they were mine4 ,,lara4 ,and so they should be1 dear1 ,were ,i ,aladdin1 and had slaves o' the lamp ,to fetch me ingots4 ,why1 then1 ,beatrice1 ,all ,persia's turquoise-quarries should be yours1 ,although your hand is heavy now with gems ,that tear my lips when ,i would kiss its whiteness4 ,oh6 so you pout6 ,why make that full-blown rose ,into a bud again8 ,,beatrice4 ,you love me not4 ,,lara4 ,a coquette's song4 ,,beatrice4 ,i sing it4 ,,lara4 ,a poor song4 ,,beatrice4 ,you love me not1 or love me over-much1 ,which makes you jealous of the gems ,i wear6 ,you do not deck me as becomes our state1 ,for fear my grandeur should besiege the eyes ,of ,monte1 ,clari1 ,marcus1 and the rest-- ,a precious set6 ,you're jealous1 sir6 ,,lara4 ,not ,i4 ,i love you4 ,,beatrice4 ,why1 that is as easy said ,as any three short words2 takes no more breath ,to say1 ,i hate you4 ,what1 sir1 have ,i lived ,three times four weeks your wedded loyal wife1 ,and do not know your follies8 ,i will wager 7,if ,i could trap his countship into this67 ,the rarest kisses ,i know how to give ,against the turquoise1 that within a month ,you'll grow so jealous--and without a cause1 ,or with a reason thin as window glass-- ,that you will ache to kill me6 ,,lara4 ,will you so8 ,and ,i--let us clasp hands and kiss on it4 ,,beatrice4 ,clasp hands1 ,sir ,trustful2 but not kiss--nay1 nay6 ,i will not pay my forfeit till ,i lose4 ,,lara4 ,and ,i'll not lose the forfeit4 ,,beatrice4 ,we shall see4 ,exit ,,beatrice4 ,,lara4 ,she has as many fancies as the wind ,which now1 like slumber1 lies 'mong spicy isles1 ,then suddenly blows white furrows in the sea6 ,lovely and dangerous is my leopardess4 ,to-day1 low-lying at my feet2 to-morrow1 ,with great eyes flashing1 threatening doleful death-- ,with strokes like velvet6 ,she's no common clay1 ,but fire and dew and marble4 ,i'll not throw ,so rare a wonder in the lap o' the world6 ,jealous8 ,i am not jealous--though they say ,some sorts of love breed jealousy4 ,and yet1 ,i would ,i had not wagered2 it implies ,doubt4 ,if ,i doubted8 ,pshaw6 ,i'll walk awhile ,and let the cool air fan me4 ',twas not wise4 ',tis only ,folly with its cap and bells ,can jest with sad things4 ,she seemed earnest1 too4 ,what if1 to pique me1 she should overstep ,the pale of modesty1 and give bold eyes 7,i could not bear that1 nay1 not even that67 ,to ,marc or ,claudian8 ,why1 such things have been ,and no sin dreamed of4 ,i will watch her close4 ,there1 now1 ,i wrong her4 ,yet if she1 ,to win the turquoise of me1 if she should-- ,o cursed jewels6 ,would that they were hung ,about the glistening neck of some mermaid ,a thousand fathoms underneath the sea6 ,a ,,page crosses the garden4 ,that page again6 ',tis twice within the week ,the supple-waisted1 pretty-ankled knave ,has crossed my garden at this self-same hour1 ,trolling a canzonetta with an air ,as if he owned the villa4 ,why1 the fop6 ,he might have doffed his bonnet as he passed4 ,i'll teach him better if he comes again4 ,what does he at the villa8 ,o6 perchance ,he comes in the evening when his master's out1 ,to lisp soft romance in the ready ear ,of ,beatrice's dressing-maid2 but then ,she has one lover4 ,now ,i think she's two3 ,this gaudy popinjay would make the third1 ,and that's too many for an honest girl6 ,i'll ask the ,countess--no1 ,i'll not do that2 ,she'd laugh at me2 and vow by the ,madonna ,this varlet was some noble in disguise1 ,seeking her favor4 ,then ,i'd let the light ,of heaven through his doublet--,i would--yes1 ,that is1 ,i would1 were ,i a jealous man3 ,but then ,i'm not4 ,when he comes out again ,i'll stop him1 question him1 and know the truth4 ,i cannot sit in the garden of a night ,but he glides by me in his jaunty dress1 ,like a fantastic phantom6--never looks ,to the right nor left1 but passes gayly on1 ,as if ,i were a statue4 ,soft1 he comes6 ,i'll make him speak1 or kill him2 then1 indeed1 ,it were unreasonable to ask it4 ,soh6 ,i'll speak him gently at the first1 and then-- ,the ,,page enters by a gate in the villa-garden1 and walks past the ,,count4 ,ho6 pretty page1 who owns you8 ,,page4 ,no one now4 ,once ,signor ,juan1 but ,i am his no more4 ,,lara4 ,what1 then1 you stole from him8 ,,page4 ,o6 no1 sir1 no4 ,he had so many intrigues on his hands1 ,there was no sleep for me nor night nor day4 ,such carrying of love-favors and pink notes6 ,he's gone abroad now1 to break other hearts ,and so ,i left him4 ,,lara4 ,a frank knave4 ,,page4 ,to-night ,i've done his latest bidding-- ,,lara4 ,as you should-- ,,page4 ,a duty wed with pleasure--'twas to take ,a message to a countess all forlorn1 ,in yonder villa4 ,,lara4 aside4 ,why6 that villa's mine6 ,a message to a countess all forlorn8 ,in yonder villa8 ,,page4 ,ay1 sir4 ,you can see ,the portico among the mulberries1 ,just to the left1 there4 ,,lara4 ,ay1 ,i see1 ,i see4 ,a pretty villa4 ,and the lady's name8 ,,page4 ,the lady's name1 sir8 ,,lara4 ,ay1 the lady's name4 ,,page4 ,o6 that's a secret which ,i cannot tell4 ,,lara4 ,no8 but you shall1 though1 or ,i'll strangle you6 ,in my strong hands your slender neck would snap ,like a fragile pipe-stem4 ,,page4 ,you are choking me6 ,o6 loose your grasp1 sir6 ,,lara4 ,then the name6 the name6 ,,page4 ,countess of ,lara4 ,,lara4 ,not her dressing-maid8 ,,page4 ,no1 no1 ,i said the mistress1 not the maid4 ,,lara4 ,and then you lied4 ,i never saw two eyes ,so wide and frank but they'd a pliant tongue ,to shape a lie for them4 ,say you are false6 ,tell me you lie1 and ,i will make you rich1 ,i'll stuff your cap with ducats twice a year4 ,,page4 ,well1 then--,i lie4 ,,lara4 ,ay1 now you lie1 indeed6 ,i see it in the cunning of your eyes2 ,night cannot hide the ,satan leering there4 ,only a little lingering fear of heaven ,holds me from dirking you between the ribs6 ,,page4 ,what would you have8 ,i will say nothing1 then4 ,,lara4 ,say everything1 and end it6 ,here is gold4 ,you brought a billet to the ,countess--well8 ,what said the billet8 ,,page4 ,take away your hand4 ,and1 by ,st4 ,mary1 ,i will tell you all4 ,there1 now1 ,i breathe4 ,you will not harm me1 sir8 ,stand six yards off1 or ,i will not a word4 ,it seems the ,countess promised ,signor ,juan ,a set of turquoise-- ,,lara4 ,turquoise8 ,ha6 that's well4 ,,page4 ,just so--wherewith my master was to pay ,some gaming debts2 but yester-night the cards ,tumbled a golden mountain at his feet2 ,and ere he sailed1 this morning1 ,signor ,juan ,gave me a perfumed1 amber-tinted note1 ,for ,countess ,lara1 which1 with some adieus1 ,craved her remembrance morning1 noon1 and night2 ,her prayers while gone1 her smiles when he returned2 ,then told his sudden fortune with the cards1 ,and bade her keep the jewels4 ,that is all4 ,,lara4 ,all8 ,is that all8 ',t has only cracked my heart6 ,a heart1 ,i know1 of little1 little worth-- ,an ill-cut ruby1 scarred and scratched before1 ,but now quite broken6 ,i have no heart1 then2 ,men should not have1 when they are wronged like this4 ,out of my sight1 thou demon of bad news6 ,exit ,,lara4 ,,page4 ,i did not think 't would work on him like that4 ,how pale he grew6 ,alack6 ,i fear some ill ,will come of this4 ,i'll to the ,countess now1 ,and warn her of his madness4 ,exit ,,page4 ,,act ,i1 ,,scene ,,ii ,,scene3 ,beatrice's chamber4 ,beatrice sits on a fauteuil in the attitude of listening4 ,,beatrice4 ,hist6 that's his step4 ,miriam1 place the lights ,farther away2 keep you behind the screen1 ,breathing no louder than a lily does2 ,for if you stir or laugh 'twill ruin all4 ,,miriam4 ,laugh6 ,i am faint with terror4 ,,beatrice4 ,then be still4 ,move not for worlds until ,i touch the bell1 ,then do the thing ,i told you4 ,hush6 his step ,sounds in the corridor1 and ,i'm asleep6 ,,lara enters4 ,he approaches within a few yards of ,,beatrice1 pauses1 and looks at her4 ,,lara4 ,asleep6--and guilt can slumber6 ,guilt can lie ,down-lidded and soft-breathed like innocence6 ,hath dreams as sweet as childhood's--who can tell8 ,were ,i an artist1 and did wish to paint ,a devil to perfection1 ,i'd not limn ,a horned monster1 with a leprous skin1 ,red-hot from ,pandemonium--not ,i4 ,but with my delicatest tints1 ,i'd paint ,a woman in the glamour of her youth1 ,all garmented with loveliness and mystery6 ,how fair she is6 ,her beauty glides between ,me and my purpose1 like a pleading angel4 ,,beatrice sighs4 ,her dream's broke1 like a bubble1 in a sigh4 ,she'll waken soon1 and that--that must not be6 ,i could not kill her if she looked at me4 ,i loved her1 loved her1 by the saints1 ,i did-- ,i trust she prayed before she fell asleep6 ,,beatrice springing up4 ,so1 you are come--your dagger in your hand8 ,your lips compressed and blanched1 and your hair ,tumbled wildly all about your eyes1 ,like a river-god's8 ,o love1 you frighten me6 ,and you are trembling4 ,tell me what this means4 ,,lara4 ,oh6 nothing1 nothing--,i did think to write ,a note to ,juan1 to ,signor ,juan1 my friend 7,your cousin and my honorable friend72 ,but finding neither ink nor paper here1 ,i thought to scratch it with my dagger's point ,upon your bosom1 ,madam6 ,that is all4 ,,beatrice4 ,you've lost your senses6 ,,lara4 ,madam1 no1 ,i've found 'em6 ,,beatrice4 ,then lose them quickly1 and be what you were4 ,,lara4 ,i was a fool1 a dupe--a happy dupe4 ,you should have kept me in my ignorance2 ,for wisdom makes us wretched1 king and clown4 ,countess of ,lara1 you are false to me6 ,,beatrice4 ,now1 by the saints-- ,,lara4 ,now1 by the saints1 you are6 ,,beatrice4 ,upon my honor-- ,,lara4 ,on your honor8 fie6 ,swear by the ocean's feathery froth1 for that ,is not so light a substance4 ,,beatrice4 ,hear me1 love6 ,,lara4 ,lie to that marble ,io6 ,i am sick ,to the heart with lying4 ,,beatrice4 ,you've the ear-ache1 sir1 ,got with too much believing4 ,,lara4 ,beatrice1 ,i came to kill you4 ,,beatrice4 ,kiss me1 ,count1 you mean6 ,,lara4 ,if killing you be kissing you1 why yes4 ,,beatrice4 ,ho6 come not near me with such threatening looks1 ,stand back there1 if you love me1 or have loved6 ,as ,,lara advances1 ,,beatrice retreats to the table and rings a small hand-bell4 ,,miriam1 in the dress of a page1 enters from behind the screen and steps between them4 ,,lara starting back4 ,the ,page8 now1 curse him6 ,what8 no6 ,miriam8 ,hold6 'twas at twilight1 in the villa-garden1 ,at dusk1 too1 on the road to ,mantua2 ,but here the light falls on you1 man or maid6 ,stop now2 my brain's bewildered4 ,stand you there1 ,and let me touch you with incredulous hands6 ,wait till ,i come1 nor vanish like a ghost4 ,if this be ,juan's page1 why1 where is ,miriam8 ,if this be ,miriam1 where's--by all the saints1 ,i have been tricked6 ,,miriam laughing4 ,by two saints1 with your leave6 ,,lara4 ,the happiest fool in ,italy1 for my age6 ,and all the damning tales you fed me with1 ,you ,sprite of ,twilight1 ,imp of the old ,moon6-- ,,miriam bowing4 ,were arrant lies as ever woman told2 ,and though not mine1 ,i claim the price for them-- ,this cap stuffed full of ducats twice a year6 ,,lara4 ,a trap6 a trap that only caught a fool6 ,so thin a plot1 ,i might have seen through it4 ,i've lost my reason6 ,,miriam4 ,and your ducats6 ,,beatrice4 ,and ,a certain set of turquoise at ,malan's6 ,,she ,,stoops ,,to ,,conquer ,,oliver ,,goldsmith ,,act ,,ii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,hardcastle1 hospitable and urbane1 with a touch of humor in his nature2 ,marlow and ,hastings who come from ,london to visit the ,hardcastles2 servants4 ,,scene3 ,hardcastle's house4 ,young ,marlow and ,hastings have journeyed from ,london to the home of ,mr4 ,hardcastle1 an old family friend whom they have never seen4 ,they are deceived into believing they are many miles from their destination when they really have arrived4 ,they are told that ,mr4 ,hardcastle's house is a public inn4 ,this leads to much confusion4 ,the genial ,hardcastle is drilling his servants4 ,enter ,,hardcastle1 followed by ,,diggory and three or four awkward ,,servants ,,mr4 ,h4 ,well1 ,i hope you're perfect in the table exercise ,i have been teaching you these three days4 ,you all know your posts and your places1 and can show that you have been used to good company1 without stirring from home8 ,,all4 ,ay6 ay6 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,when company comes1 you are not to pop out and stare1 and then run in again1 like frightened rabbits in a warren4 ,,all4 ,no6 no6 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,you1 ,diggory1 whom ,i have taken from the barn1 are to make a show at the side table2 and you1 ,roger1 whom ,i have advanced from the plough1 are to place yourself behind my chair4 ,but you're not to stand so1 with your hands in your pockets4 ,take your hands from your pockets1 ,roger2 and from your head1 you blockhead you6 ,see how ,diggory carries his hands4 ,they're a little too stiff1 indeed1 but that's no great matter4 ,,diggory4 ,ay1 mind how ,i hold them4 ,i learned to hold my hands this way1 when ,i was upon drill for the militia4 ,and so being upon drill---- ,,mr4 ,h4 ,you must not be so talkative1 ,diggory2 you must be all attention to the guests4 ,you must hear us talk1 and not think of talking2 you must see us drink1 and not think of drinking2 you must see us eat1 and not think of eating4 ,,dig4 ,by the laws1 your worship1 that's perfectly unpossible4 ,exeunt4 ,enter ,,servants1 showing in ,,marlow and ,,hastings ,,serv4 ,welcome1 gentlemen1 very welcome4 ,this way4 ,,hast4 ,after the disappointments of the day1 welcome once more1 ,charles1 to the comforts of a clean room1 and a good fire4 ,upon my word1 a very well-looking house2 antique1 but creditable4 ,,mar4 ,the usual fate of a large mansion4 ,having first ruined the master by good housekeeping1 it at last comes to levy contributions as an inn4 ,,hast4 ,as you say1 we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries4 ,i have often seen a good side-board1 or a marble chimney-piece1 though not actually put in the bill1 inflame the bill confoundedly4 ,,mar4 ,travelers1 ,george1 must pay in all places4 ,the only difference is1 that in good inns you pay dearly for luxuries2 in bad inns you are fleeced and starved4 ,enter ,,hardcastle ,,mr4 ,h4 ,gentlemen1 once more you are heartily welcome4 ,which is ,mr4 ,marlow8 ,sir1 you're heartily welcome4 ,it's not my way1 you see1 to receive my friends with my back to the fire4 ,i like to give them a hearty reception in the old style at my gate4 ,i like to see their horses and trunks taken care of4 ,,mar4 aside4 ,he has got our names from the servants already4 ,to ,,hardcastle4 ,we approve your caution and hospitality4 ,to ,,hastings4 ,i have been thinking1 ,george1 of changing our traveling dresses in the morning1 ,i am grown confoundedly ashamed of mine4 ,,mr4 ,h4 putting chairs and tables in order in background4 ,i beg1 ,mr4 ,marlow1 you'll use no ceremony in this house4 ,,hast4 ,i fancy1 ,george1 you're right2 the first blow is half the battle4 ,i intend opening the campaign with the white and gold4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,mr4 ,marlow--,mr4 ,hastings--gentlemen--pray be under no restraint in this house4 ,this is ,liberty ,hall1 gentlemen4 ,you may do just as you please here4 ,,mar4 ,yet1 ,george1 if we open the campaign too fiercely at first1 we may want ammunition before it is over4 ,i think to reserve the embroidery to secure a retreat4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,your talking of a retreat1 ,mr4 ,marlow1 puts me in mind of the ,duke of ,marlborough1 when he went to besiege ,denain4 ,he first summoned the garrison-- ,,mar4 ,aye1 and we'll summon your garrison1 old boy4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,he first summoned the garrison1 which might consist of about five thousand men-- ,,hast4 ,what a strange fellow is this6 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,i say1 gentlemen1 as ,i was telling you1 he summoned the garrison1 which might consist of about five thousand men-- ,,mar4 ,well1 but suppose-- ,,mr4 ,h4 ,which might consist of about five thousand men1 well appointed with stores1 ammunition1 and other implements of war4 ,now1 says the ,duke of ,marlborough to ,george ,brooks1 that stood next to him--you must have heard of ,george ,brooks--,i'll pawn my dukedom1 says he1 but ,i take that garrison without spilling a drop of blood4 ,so-- ,,mar4 ,what1 my good friend1 if you give us a glass of punch in the meantime1 it would help us to carry on the siege with vigor4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,punch1 sir8 ,,mar4 ,yes1 sir1 punch4 ,a glass of warm punch1 after our journey1 will be comfortable4 ,this is ,liberty ,hall1 you know4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,here's a cup1 sir4 ,,mar4 aside4 ,so this fellow1 in his ,liberty ,hall1 will only let us have just what he pleases4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,i hope you'll find it to your mind4 ,i have prepared it with my own hands1 and ,i believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable4 ,will you be so good as to pledge me1 sir8 ,here1 ,mr4 ,marlow1 here is to our better acquaintance4 ,drinks4 ,,mar4 aside4 ,a very impudent fellow1 this6 but he's a character1 and ,i'll humor him a little4 ,aloud4 ,sir1 my service to you4 ,drinks4 ,,hast4 aside4 ,i see this fellow wants to give us his company1 and forgets that he's an inn-keeper before he has learned to be a gentleman4 ,,mar4 ,from the excellence of your cup1 my old friend1 ,i suppose you have a good deal of business in this part of the country4 ,warm work1 now and then1 at elections1 ,i suppose8 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,no1 sir2 ,i have long given that work over4 ,,hast4 ,so1 then1 you have no turn for politics1 ,i find8 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,why1 no1 sir2 there was a time1 indeed1 when ,i fretted myself about the mistakes of government1 like other people2 but finding myself every day grow more angry1 and the government no better1 ,i left it to mend itself4 ,sir1 my service to you4 ,drinks4 ,,hast4 ,so that1 with eating above stairs1 and drinking below1 with receiving your friends within1 amusing them without1 you lead a good1 pleasant1 bustling life of it4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,i do stir about a great deal1 that's certain4 ,half the differences of the parish are adjusted in this very parlor4 ,,mar4 ,and you have an argument in your cup1 old gentleman1 better than any in ,westminster ,hall4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,aye1 young gentleman1 that1 and a little philosophy4 ,,mar4 aside4 ,well1 this is the first time ,i ever heard of an inn-keeper's philosophy4 ,,hast4 ,so1 then1 like an experienced general1 you attack them on every quarter4 ,if you find their reason manageable you attack it with your philosophy2 if you find they have no reason1 you attack them with this4 ,here's your health1 my philosopher4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,good1 very good1 thank you2 ha6 ha6 ,your generalship puts me in mind of ,prince ,eugene1 when he fought the ,turks at the battle of ,belgrade4 ,you shall hear4 ,,mar4 ,instead of the battle of ,belgrade1 ,i think it's almost time to talk about supper4 ,what has your philosophy got in the house for supper8 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,for supper1 sir8 ,was ever such a request made to a man in his own house8 ,,mar4 ,yes1 sir1 supper1 sir2 ,i begin to feel an appetite4 ,i shall make devilish work to-night in the larder1 ,i promise you4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,such a brazen dog sure never my eyes beheld4 ,why1 really1 sir1 as for supper1 ,i can't well tell4 ,my ,dorothy and the cook-maid settle these things between them4 ,i leave these kind of things entirely to them4 ,,mar4 ,you do1 do you8 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,entirely4 ,by-the-bye1 ,i believe they are in actual consultation upon what's for supper this moment in the kitchen4 ,,mar4 ,then ,i beg they'll admit me as one of their privy council4 ,it's a way ,i have got4 ,when ,i travel1 ,i always choose to regulate my own supper4 ,let the cook be called4 ,no offense1 ,i hope1 sir4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,o1 no1 sir1 none in the least2 yet ,i don't know how2 our ,bridget1 the cook-maid1 is not very communicative upon these occasions4 ,should we send for her she might scold us all out of the house4 ,,hast4 ,let's see the list of the larder1 then4 ,i ask it as a favor4 ,i always match my appetite to my bill of fare4 ,,mar4 ,sir1 he's very right1 and it's my way too4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,sir1 you have a right to command here4 ,here1 ,roger1 bring us the bill of fare for to-night's supper--,i believe it's drawn out4 ,your manner1 ,mr4 ,hastings1 puts me in mind of my uncle1 ,colonel ,gunthorp4 ,it was a saying of his1 that no man was sure of his supper till he had eaten it4 ,enter ,,roger1 with a bill of fare ,,hast4 aside4 ,all upon the high ropes6 ,his uncle a colonel--we shall soon hear of his mother being a justice of the peace4 ,but let's hear the bill of fare4 ,exit ,,roger4 ,,mar4 ,what's here8 ,for the first course1 for the second course1 for the dessert6 ,the devil1 sir6 do you think we have brought down the whole joiner's company1 or the corporation of ,bedford8 two or three little things1 clean and comfortable1 will do4 ,,hast4 ,but let's hear it4 ,,mar4 ,for the first course at the top1 a pig's face and prune sauce4 ,,hast4 ,out with your pig1 ,i say4 ,,mar4 ,out with your prune sauce1 say ,i4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,and yet1 gentlemen1 to men that are hungry1 pig1 with prune sauce1 is very good eating4 ,but1 gentlemen1 you are my guests1 make what alterations you please4 ,is there anything else you wish to retrench or alter1 gentlemen8 ,,mar4 ,why1 really1 sir1 your bill of fare is so exquisite1 that any one part of it is full as good as another4 ,send us what you please4 ,so much for supper4 ,and now to see that our beds are aired1 and luggage properly taken care of4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,i entreat you'll leave all that to me4 ,you shall not stir a step4 ,,mar4 ,leave that to you8 ,i protest1 sir4 ,you must excuse me1 ,i always look to these things myself4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,i must insist1 sir1 you'll make yourself easy on that head4 ,,mar4 ,you see ,i'm resolved on it4 ,aside4 ,a very troublesome fellow this as ever ,i met with4 ,,mr4 ,h4 ,well1 sir1 ,i'm resolved at least to attend you4 ,exeunt ,,marlow and ,,hastings4 ,aside4 ,this may be modern modesty1 but ,i never saw anything look so like old-fashioned impudence4 ,what could my old friend ,sir ,charles ,marlow mean by recommending his son as the modestest young man in town6 ,to me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue6 ,exit ,,hardcastle4 ,,pygmalion ,,and ,,galatea ,w4 ,s4 ,,gilbert ,,act ,i1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,pygmalion1 an ,athenian sculptor2 ,cynisca1 his wife2 ,galatea1 an animated statue4 ,,scene3 ,pygmalion's studio2 several classical statues are placed about the room2 at the back a cabinet containing a statue of ,galatea1 before which curtains are drawn concealing the statue4 ,,pyg4 ,it all but breathes--therefore it talks aloud6 ,it all but moves--therefore it walks and runs6 ,it all but lives1 and therefore it is life6 ,no1 no1 my love1 the thing is cold1 dull stone1 ,shaped to a certain form1 but still dull stone1 ,the lifeless1 senseless mockery of life4 ,the gods make life1 ,i can make only death6 ,why1 my ,cynisca1 though ,i stand so well1 ,the merest cut-throat1 when he plies his trade1 ,makes better death than ,i with all my skill6 ,,cyn4 ,hush1 my ,pygmalion6 the gods are good1 ,and they have made thee nearer unto them ,than other men2 this is ingratitude6 ,,pyg4 ,not so2 has not a monarch's second son ,more cause for anger that he lacks a throne ,than he whose lot is cast in slavery8 ,,cyn4 ,not much more cause1 perhaps1 but more excuse4 ,now ,i must go4 ,,pyg4 ,so soon1 and for so long8 ,,cyn4 ,one day1 'twill quickly pass away6 ,,pyg4 ,with those who measure time1 by almanacs1 no doubt1 ,but not with him who knows no days save those ,born of the sunlight of ,cynisca's eyes2 ,it will be night with me till she returns4 ,,cyn4 ,then sleep it through1 ,pygmalion6 ,but stay1 ,thou shalt not pass the weary hours alone2 ,now mark thou this--while ,i'm away from thee1 ,there stands my only representative2 ,withdrawing curtains4 ,she is my proxy1 and ,i charge you1 sir1 ,be faithful unto her as unto me6 ,into her quietly attentive ear ,pour all thy treasures of hyperbole1 ,and give thy nimble tongue full license1 lest ,disuse should rust its glib machinery2 ,advancing4 ,if thoughts of love should haply crowd on thee1 ,there stands my other self1 tell them to her1 ,she'll listen well2 nay1 that's ungenerous1 ,for she is ,i1 yet lovelier than ,i1 ,and hath no temper1 sir1 and hath no tongue2 ,thou hast thy license--make good use of it4 ,already ,i'm half jealous--there6 ,draws curtain concealing statue4 ,it's gone4 ,the thing is but a statue after all1 ,and ,i am safe in leaving thee with her2 ,farewell1 ,pygmalion1 till ,i return4 ,exit4 ,,pyg4 ,the thing is but a statue after all6 ,cynisca little thought that in those words ,she touched the key-note of my discontent4 ,true1 ,i have powers denied to other men2 ,give me a block of senseless marble--,well1 ,i'm a magician1 and it rests with me ,to say what kernel lies within its shell2 ,it shall contain a man1 a woman1 a child1 ,a dozen men and women if ,i will4 ,so far the gods and ,i run neck and neck1 ,nay1 so far ,i can beat them at their trade2 ,i am no bungler--all the men ,i make ,are straight limbed fellows1 each magnificent ,in the perfection of his manly grace2 ,i make no crook-backs2 all my men are gods1 ,my women1 goddesses1 in outward form4 ,but there's my tether--,i can go so far1 ,and go no farther--at that point ,i stop1 ,to curse the bonds that hold me sternly back4 ,to curse the arrogance of those proud gods1 ,who say1 ,thou shalt be greatest among men1 ,and yet infinitesimally small6 ,,galatea from behind curtain4 ,pygmalion6 ,,pyg4 ,who called8 ,,gal4 ,pygmalion6 ,,pygmalion tears away curtain and1 discovers ,,galatea alive4 ,,pyg4 ,ye gods6 ,it lives6 ,,gal4 ,pygmalion6 ,,pyg4 ,it speaks6 ,i have my prayer6 my ,galatea breathes6 ,,gal4 ,where am ,i8 ,let me speak1 ,pygmalion2 ,give me thy hand--both hands--how soft and warm6 ,whence came ,i8 ,descends4 ,,pyg4 ,why1 from yonder pedestal4 ,,gal4 ,that pedestal6 ,ah1 yes1 ,i recollect4 ,there was a time when it was part of me4 ,,pyg4 ,that time has passed forever1 thou art now ,a living1 breathing woman1 excellent ,in every attribute of womankind4 ,,gal4 ,where am ,i1 then8 ,,pyg4 ,why1 born into the world ,by miracle4 ,,gal4 ,is this the world8 ,,pyg4 ,it is4 ,,gal4 ,this room8 ,,pyg4 ,this room is portion of a house2 ,the house stands in a grove1 the grove itself ,is one of many1 many thousand groves ,in ,athens4 ,,gal4 ,and is ,athens then the world8 ,,pyg4 ,to an ,athenian--,yes-- ,,gal4 ,and ,i am one8 ,,pyg4 ,by birth and parentage1 not by descent4 ,,gal4 ,but how came ,i to be8 ,,pyg4 ,well--let me see4 ,oh--you were quarried in ,pentelicus2 ,i modeled you in clay--my artisans ,then roughed you out in marble--,i1 in turn1 ,brought my artistic skill to bear on you1 ,and made you what you are--in all but life-- ,the gods completed what ,i had begun1 ,and gave the only gift ,i could not give4 ,,gal4 ,then is this life8 ,,pyg4 ,it is4 ,,gal4 ,and not long since ,i was a cold1 dull stone4 ,i recollect ,that by some means ,i knew that ,i was stone1 ,that was the first dull gleam of conscience2 ,i became conscious of a chilly self1 ,a cold immovable identity1 ,i knew that ,i was stone1 and knew no more2 ,then1 by an imperceptible advance1 ,came the dim evidence of outer things1 ,seen--darkly and imperfectly--yet seen-- ,the walls surrounded me1 and ,i1 alone1 ,that pedestal--that curtain--then a voice ,that called on ,galatea6 ,at that word1 ,which seemed to shake my marble to the core1 ,that which was dim before1 came evident4 ,sounds1 that had hummed around me1 indistinct1 ,vague1 meaningless--seemed to resolve themselves ,into a language ,i could understand2 ,i felt my frame pervaded with a glow ,that seemed to thaw my marble into flesh2 ,its cold hard substance throbbed with active life1 ,my limbs grew supple1 and ,i moved--,i lived6 ,lived in the ecstasy of new born life2 ,lived in the love of him that fashioned me2 ,lived in a thousand tangled thoughts of hope1 ,love1 gratitude1 thoughts that resolved themselves ,into one word1 that word1 ,pygmalion6 ,kneels4 ,,pyg4 ,i have no words to tell thee of my joy1 ,o woman--perfect in thy loveliness4 ,,gal4 ,what is that word8 ,am ,i a woman8 ,,pyg4 ,yes4 ,,gal4 ,art thou a woman8 ,,pyg4 ,no1 ,i am a man4 ,,gal4 ,what is a man8 ,,pyg4 ,a being strongly framed1 ,to wait on woman1 and protect her from ,all ills that strength and courage can avert2 ,to work and toil for her1 that she may rest2 ,to weep and mourn for her1 that she may laugh2 ,to fight and die for her1 that she might live6 ,,gal4 ,i'm glad ,i am a woman4 ,he leads her down4 ,,pyg4 ,so am ,i4 ,,gal4 ,that ,i escape the pains thou hast to bear8 ,,pyg4 ,that ,i may undergo those pains for thee4 ,,gal4 ,with whom then wouldst thou fight8 ,,pyg4 ,with any man ,whose word or deed gave ,galatea pain4 ,,gal4 ,then there are other men in this strange world8 ,,pyg4 ,there are indeed4 ,,gal4 ,and other women8 ,,pyg4 ,yes2 ,though for the moment ,i'd forgotten it2 ,yes1 other women4 ,,gal4 ,and for all of these ,men work1 and toil1 and mourn1 and weep and fight8 ,,pyg4 ,it is man's duty1 if he's called upon1 ,to fight for all2 he works for those he loves4 ,,gal4 ,then by thy works ,i know thou lovest me4 ,,pyg4 ,indeed1 ,i love thee6 ,,gal4 ,with what kind of love8 ,,pyg4 ,i love thee as a sculptor does his work6 ,aside4 ,there is diplomacy in that reply4 ,,gal4 ,my love is different in kind to thine2 ,i am no sculptor1 and ,i've done no work1 ,yet ,i do love thee2 say--what love is mine8 ,,pyg4 ,tell me its symptoms--then ,i'll answer thee4 ,,gal4 ,its symptoms8 ,let me call them as they come4 ,a sense that ,i am made by thee for thee1 ,that ,i've no will that is not wholly thine1 ,that ,i've no thought1 no hope1 no enterprise1 ,that does not own thee as its sovereign2 ,that ,i have life1 that ,i may live for thee1 ,that ,i am thine--that thou and ,i are one6 ,what kind of love is that8 ,,pyg4 ,a kind of love ,that ,i shall run some risk in dealing with4 ,,gal4 ,and why1 ,pygmalion8 ,,pyg4 ,such love as thine ,a man may not receive1 except indeed ,from one who is1 or is to be1 his wife4 ,,gal4 ,then ,i will be thy wife4 ,,pyg4 ,that may not be2 ,i have a wife--the gods allow but one4 ,,gal4 ,why did the gods then send me here to thee8 ,,pyg4 ,i cannot say--unless to punish me ,for unreflecting and presumptuous prayer6 ,i prayed that thou shouldst live4 ,i have my prayer1 ,and now ,i see the fearful consequence ,that must attend it6 ,,gal4 ,yet thou lovest me8 ,,pyg4 ,who could look on that face and stifle love8 ,,gal4 ,then ,i am beautiful8 ,,pyg4 ,indeed thou art4 ,,gal4 ,i wish that ,i could look upon myself1 ,but that's impossible4 ,,pyg4 ,not so indeed1 ,this mirror will reflect thy face4 ,behold6 ,,gal4 ,how beautiful6 ,i am very glad to know ,that both our tastes agree so perfectly2 ,why1 my ,pygmalion1 ,i did not think ,that aught could be more beautiful than thou1 ,till ,i behold myself4 ,believe me1 love1 ,i could look in this mirror all day long4 ,so ,i'm a woman4 ,,pyg4 ,there's no doubt of that6 ,,gal4 ,oh happy maid to be so passing fair6 ,and happier still ,pygmalion1 who can gaze1 ,at will1 upon so beautiful a face4 ,,pyg4 ,hush6 ,galatea--in thine innocence ,thou sayest things that others would reprove4 ,,gal4 ,indeed1 ,pygmalion2 then it is wrong ,to think that one is exquisitely fair8 ,,pyg4 ,well1 ,galatea1 it's a sentiment ,that every woman shares with thee2 ,they think it--but they keep it to themselves4 ,,gal4 ,and is thy wife as beautiful as ,i8 ,,pyg4 ,no1 ,galatea1 for in forming thee ,i took her features--lovely in themselves-- ,and in the marble made them lovelier still4 ,,gal4 ,oh6 then ,i'm not original8 ,,pyg4 ,well--no-- ,that is--thou hast indeed a prototype1 ,but though in stone thou didst resemble her1 ,in life1 the difference is manifest4 ,,gal4 ,i'm very glad that ,i am lovelier than she4 ,and am ,i better8 ,,pyg4 ,that ,i do not know4 ,,gal4 ,then she has faults4 ,,pyg4 ,very few indeed2 ,mere trivial blemishes1 that serve to show ,that she and ,i are of one common kin4 ,i love her all the better for such faults4 ,,gal4 ,tell me some faults and ,i'll commit them now4 ,,pyg4 ,there is no hurry2 they will come in time2 ,though for that matter1 it's a grievous sin ,to sit as lovingly as we sit now4 ,,gal4 ,is sin so pleasant8 ,if to sit and talk ,as we are sitting1 be indeed a sin1 ,why ,i could sin all day4 ,but tell me1 love1 ,is this great fault that ,i'm committing now ,the kind of fault that only serves to show ,that thou and ,i are of one common kin8 ,,pyg4 ,indeed1 ,i'm very much afraid it is4 ,,gal4 ,and dost thou love me better for such fault8 ,,pyg4 ,where is the mortal that could answer no8 ,,gal4 ,why1 then ,i'm satisfied1 ,pygmalion2 ,thy wife and ,i can start on equal terms4 ,she loves thee8 ,,pyg4 ,very much4 ,,gal4 ,i'm glad of that4 ,i like thy wife4 ,,pyg4 ,and why8 ,,gal4 ,our tastes agree4 ,we love ,pygmalion well1 and what is more1 ,pygmalion loves us both4 ,i like thy wife2 ,i'm sure we shall agree4 ,,pyg4 aside4 ,i doubt it much4 ,,gal4 ,is she within8 ,,pyg4 ,no1 she is not within4 ,,gal4 ,but she'll come back8 ,,pyg4 ,oh1 yes1 she will come back4 ,,gal4 ,how pleased she'll be to know when she returns1 ,that there was some one here to fill her place4 ,,pyg4 ,yes1 ,i should say she'd be extremely pleased4 ,,gal4 ,why1 there is something in thy voice which says ,that thou art jesting4 ,is it possible ,to say one thing and mean another8 ,,pyg4 ,yes1 ,it's sometimes done4 ,,gal4 ,how very wonderful6 ,so clever6 ,,pyg4 ,and so very useful4 ,,gal4 ,yes4 ,teach me the art4 ,,pyg4 ,the art will come in time4 ,my wife will not be pleased2 there--that's the truth4 ,,gal4 ,i do not think that ,i shall like thy wife4 ,tell me more of her4 ,,pyg4 ,well-- ,,gal4 ,what did she say ,when last she left thee8 ,,pyg4 ,humph6 ,well1 let me see2 ,oh6 true1 she gave thee to me as my wife1-- ,her solitary representative2 ,she feared ,i should be lonely till she came4 ,and counseled me1 if thoughts of love should come1 ,to speak those thoughts to thee1 as ,i am wont ,to speak to her4 ,,gal4 ,that's right4 ,,pyg4 ,but when she spoke ,thou wast a stone1 now thou art flesh and blood1 ,which makes a difference4 ,,gal4 ,it's a strange world2 ,a woman loves her husband very much1 ,and cannot brook that ,i should love him too2 ,she fears he will be lonely till she comes1 ,and will not let me cheer his loneliness2 ,she bids him breathe his love to senseless stone1 ,and when that stone is brought to life--be dumb6 ,it's a strange world1 ,i cannot fathom it4 ,,pyg4 aside4 ,let me be brave and put an end to this4 ,come ,galatea--till my wife returns1 ,my sister shall provide thee with a home2 ,her house is close at hand4 ,,gal4 ,send me not hence ,pygmalion2 let me stay4 ,,pyg4 ,it may not be4 ,come1 ,galatea1 we shall meet again4 ,,gal4 ,do with me as thou wilt1 ,pygmalion6 ,but we shall meet again8--and very soon8 ,,pyg4 ,yes1 very soon4 ,,gal4 ,and when thy wife returns1 ,she'll let me stay with thee8 ,,pyg4 ,i do not know4 ,aside4 ,why should ,i hide the truth from her aloud alas6 ,i may not see thee then4 ,,gal4 ,pygmalion6 ,what fearful words are these8 ,,pyg4 ,the bitter truth4 ,i may not love thee2 ,i must send thee hence4 ,,gal4 ,recall those words1 ,pygmalion1 my love6 ,was it for this that heaven gave me life8 ,pygmalion1 have mercy on me2 see1 ,i am thy work1 thou hast created me2 ,the gods have sent me to thee4 ,i am thine6 ,thine6 only1 and unalterably thine6 ,this is the thought with which my soul is charged4 ,thou tellest me of one who claims thy love1 ,that thou hast love for her alone4 ,alas6 ,i do not know these things2 ,i only know ,that heaven has sent me here to be with thee4 ,thou tellest me of duty to thy wife1 ,of vows that thou wilt love but her4 ,alas6 ,i do not know these things2 ,i only know ,that heaven1 who sent me here1 has given me ,one all absorbing duty to discharge-- ,to love thee1 and to make thee love again4 ,,pygmalion takes her in his arms1 and embraces her passionately4 ,,act ,,iii1 ,,scene ,i ,,characters3 ,pygmalion2 ,myrine1 his sister2 ,cynisca1 his wife2 ,galatea4 ,,scene3 ,pygmalion's studio4 ,enter ,,myrine ,,myr4 ,pygmalion's heard that he must lose his wife1 ,and swears1 by all the gods that reign above1 ,he will not live if she deserts him now6 ,what--what is to be done8 ,enter ,,galatea ,,gal4 ,myrine here6 ,where is ,pygmalion8 ,,myr4 ,oh1 wretched girl6 ,art thou not satisfied with all the ill ,thy heedlessness has worked1 that thou art come ,to gaze upon thy victim's misery8 ,well1 thou hast come in time6 ,,gal4 ,what dost thou mean8 ,,myr4 ,why1 this is what ,i mean2 he will not live1 ,now that ,cynisca has deserted him4 ,o1 girl1 his blood will be upon thy head6 ,,gal4 ,pygmalion will not live6 ,pygmalion die6 ,and ,i1 alas1 the miserable cause6 ,oh1 what is to be done8 ,,myr4 ,i do not know4 ,and yet there is one chance1 but one alone2 ,i'll see ,cynisca1 and prevail on her ,to meet ,pygmalion but once again4 ,,gal4 ,but should she come too late8 ,he may not live ,till she returns4 ,,myr4 ,i'll send him now to thee1 ,and tell him that his wife awaits him here4 ,he'll take thee for ,cynisca2 when he speaks ,answer thou him as if thou wast his wife4 ,,gal4 ,yes1 yes1 ,i understand4 ,,myr4 ,then ,i'll be gone4 ,the gods assist thee in this artifice6 ,exit ,,myrine4 ,,gal4 ,the gods will help me1 for the gods are good4 ,kneels4 ,oh1 heaven1 in this great grief ,i turn to thee1 ,teach me to speak to him1 as1 ere ,i lived1 ,cynisca spake to him4 ,oh1 let my voice ,be to ,pygmalion as ,cynisca's voice1 ,and he will live--for her and not for me-- ,yet he will live4 ,i am the fountain head ,enter ,,pygmalion1 unobserved1 led in by ,,myrine ,of all the horrors that surround him now1 ,and it is fit that ,i should suffer this2 ,grant this1 my first appeal--,i do not ask ,pygmalion's love2 ,i ask ,pygmalion's life4 ,,pygmalion utters an exclamation of joy4 ,she rushes to him and seizes his hand4 ,pygmalion6 ,,pyg4 ,i have no words in which ,to tell the joy with which ,i heard that prayer4 ,oh1 take me to thine arms1 my dearly loved6 ,and teach me once again how much ,i risked ,in risking such a heaven-sent love as thine4 ,,gal4 believing that he refers to her4 ,pygmalion6 my love6 ,pygmalion6 ,once more those words6 again6 say them again6 ,tell me that thou forgivest me the ill ,that ,i unwittingly have worked on thee6 ,,pyg4 ,forgive thee8 ,why1 my wife1 ,i did not dare ,to ask thy pardon1 and thou askest mine4 ,the compact with thy mistress1 ,artemis1 ,gave thee a heaven-sent right to punish me4 ,i've learnt to take whate'er the gods may send4 ,,galatea1 at first delighted1 learns in the course of this speech that ,,pygmalion takes her for ,,cynisca1 and expresses extreme horror4 ,,gal4 with an effort4 ,but then1 this woman1 ,galatea-- ,,pyg4 ,well8 ,,gal4 ,thy love for her is dead8 ,,pyg4 ,i had no love4 ,a miracle ,did crown my handiwork1 and brought to life ,the fair creation of my sculptor's skill1 ,i yielded to her god-sent influence1 ,for ,i had worshiped her before she lived ,because she called ,cynisca's face to me2 ,but when she lived--that love died--word by word4 ,,gal4 ,that is well said2 thou dost not love her then8 ,she is no more to thee than senseless stone8 ,,pyg4 ,speak not of her1 ,cynisca1 for ,i swear ,enter ,,cynisca1 unobserved ,the unhewn marble of ,pentelicus ,hath charms for me1 which she1 in all her glow ,of womanly perfection1 could not match4 ,,gal4 ,i'm very glad to hear that this is so4 ,thou art forgiven6 ,,pyg4 ,thou hast pardoned me1 ,and though the law of ,artemis declared ,thy pardon should restore to me the light ,thine anger took away1 ,i would be blind1 ,i would not have mine eyes lest they should rest ,on her who caused me all this bitterness6 ,,gal4 ,indeed1 ,pygmalion1 'twere better thus2 ,if thou couldst look on ,galatea now1 ,thy love for her1 perchance1 might come again4 ,,pyg4 ,no1 no4 ,,gal4 ,they say that she endureth pains ,that mock the power of words4 ,,pyg4 ,it should be so4 ,,gal4 ,hast thou no pity for her8 ,,cynisca comes down4 ,,pyg4 ,no1 not ,i4 ,the ill that she hath worked on thee1 on me1 ,and on ,myrine1 surely were enough ,to make us curse the hour that gave her life4 ,she is not fit to live upon this world6 ,,gal4 ,upon this worthy world1 thou sayest well4 ,the woman shall be seen of thee no more4 ,takes ,,cynisca',s hand and leads her to ,,pygmalion4 ,what wouldst thou with her now8 ,thou hast thy wife6 ,she substitutes ,,cynisca in her place1 and retires1 weeping4 ,,cynisca takes him to her arms and kisses him4 ,he recovers his sight4 ,,pyg4 ,cynisca6 see6 the light of day is mine6 ,once more ,i look upon thy well loved face6 ,enter ,,galatea ,,myr4 ,pygmalion6 ,see--,galatea's here6 ,,galatea kneels4 ,,pyg4 ,away from me1 ,woman or statue6 ,thou the only blight ,that ever fell upon my love--begone1 ,,cynisca comforts her4 ,for thou hast been the curse of all who fell ,within the compass of thy waywardness6 ,,cyn4 ,no1 no2 recall those words1 ,pygmalion1 ,thou knowest not all4 ,,gal4 ,nay1 let me go from him2 ,that curse--his curse still ringing in mine ears1 ,for life is bitterer to me than death4 ,she mounts the pedestal4 ,farewell1 ,pygmalion1 ,i am not fit ,to live upon this world--this worthy world4 ,farewell1 ,pygmalion4 ,farewell1 farewell6 ,the curtains conceal her4 ,,cyn4 ,thou art unjust to her as ,i to thee6 ,hers was the voice that pardoned thee--not mine4 ,i knew no pity till she taught it me4 ,i heard the words she spoke1 and little thought ,that they would find an echo in my heart2 ,but so it was4 ,i took them for mine own1 ,and asking for thy pardon1 pardoned thee6 ,,pyg4 ,cynisca6 ,is this so8 ,,cyn4 ,in truth it is4 ,,gal4 behind curtain3 ,farewell1 ,pygmalion6 ,farewell--farewell6 ,,pygmalion tears away the curtain1 discovering ,,galatea as a statue4 ,,index ,,of ,,authors ,aldrich1 ,thomas ,bailey1 #dgh4 ,angell1 ,james ,b41 #bbj4 ,anonymous1 #hi1 #ib1 #cdi1 #cec1 #ced1 #chj1 #chf1 #cie1 #djd4 ,arnold1 ,edwin1 #aaj4 ,barham1 ,r4 ,h41 #ed4 ,beecher1 ,henry ,ward1 #bjh1 #bae4 ,bell1 ,h4 ,g41 #dca4 ,beveridge1 ,albert ,j41 #bag4 ,blaine1 ,james ,gillespie1 #bcg4 ,bossuet1 ,jacques ,benigne1 #afi4 ,bright1 ,john1 #bah1 #bbb4 ,brooks1 ,katherine ,r41 #abe4 ,browning1 ,robert1 #ba4 ,bryan1 ,william ,jennings1 #bca4 ,bryant1 ,william ,cullen1 #acb4 ,burke1 ,edmund1 #age1 #agh1 #ahb4 ,burns1 ,robert1 #abi4 ,burroughs1 ,john1 #ec4 ,byron1 ,lord1 #adg4 ,cable1 ,george ,w41 #gg4 ,campbell1 ,thomas1 #aeg4 ,carlyle1 ,thomas1 #aef4 ,castelar1 ,emilio1 #beh4 ,channing1 ,william ,e41 #cjb4 ,chatham1 ,william ,pitt1 ,earl of1 #aga1 #agc4 ,chrysostom1 ,saint-,john1 #afe1 #afg4 ,cicero1 ,marcus ,tullius1 #afb4 ,cockran1 ,bourke1 #cad4 ,cooke1 ,edmund ,vance1 #eb4 ,coolidge1 ,susan1 #db4 ,corwin1 ,thomas1 #bgh4 ,crawford1 ,f4 ,marion1 #aci4 ,curtis1 ,george ,william1 #bgc1 #bge4 ,delano1 ,myra ,s41 #cg4 ,demosthenes1 #aei4 ,dickens1 ,charles1 #ae1 #ajc4 ,dunbar1 ,paul ,laurence1 #cbe1 #cbg1 #chi4 ,dunne1 ,finley ,peter1 #ccg4 ,edwards1 ,harry ,stillwell1 #cdj4 ,emerson1 ,ralph ,waldo1 #adh4 ,everett1 ,edward1 #cab4 ,field1 ,eugene1 #gf4 ,flagg1 ,edmund1 #cjd4 ,garfield1 ,james ,a41 #bfj4 ,gilbert1 ,w4 ,s41 #dic4 ,gillilan1 ,s4 ,w41 #acg1 #cdc4 ,gladstone1 ,william ,e41 #bbb1 #bee4 ,goldsmith1 ,oliver1 #dhf4 ,grady1 ,henry ,w41 #bdi1 #bhc1 #bhd4 ,graves1 ,john ,temple1 #bdf4 ,hamilton1 ,alexander1 #aif4 ,harris1 ,joel ,chandler1 #cce1 #cgj4 ,hay1 ,john1 #ei1 #abd1 #bfa1 #cfb4 ,hemans1 ,felicia1 #aea4 ,henry1 ,daniel1 #ab1 #acj4 ,henry1 ,patrick1 #aic1 #bib4 ,hoar1 ,george ,f41 #cji4 ,holmes1 ,oliver ,w41 #ade4 ,howe1 ,julia ,ward1 #bbe4 ,hugo1 ,victor1 #cde1 #djj4 ,hunt1 ,leigh1 #eg4 ,ingalls1 ,john ,j41 #bce4 ,ingelow1 ,jean1 #dg1 #aja4 ,ingersoll1 ,robert ,g41 #bgi1 #cae4 ,irving1 ,washington1 #ddi4 ,jenkins1 ,lucy ,dean1 #cff4 ,jerome1 ,jerome ,k41 #ced4 ,jerrold1 ,blanchard1 #dfh4 ,king1 ,ben ,f41 #ceg1 #cgi4 ,kingsley1 ,charles1 #ajb4 ,kipling1 ,rudyard1 #aee1 #cfh4 ,kossuth1 ,louis1 #bej1 #cac4 ,le ,fanu1 ,joseph ,s41 #aac4 ,lincoln1 ,abraham1 #bjf1 #bda1 #cje1 #cjg4 ,lippard1 ,george1 #ih4 ,lodge1 ,henry ,cabot1 #bbf4 ,longfellow1 ,h4 ,w41 #h1 #fa4 ,lover1 ,samuel1 #cfd4 ,lowell1 ,james ,russell1 #aeb4 ,lytton1 ,edward ,bulwer1 #be1 #hj4 ,lytton1 ,robert ,bulwer1 #h1 #dbc1 #dda4 ,mc,kinley1 ,william1 #bea4 ,mead1 ,edwin ,d41 #bid1 #bii1 #cah4 ,mitchell1 ,agnes ,e41 #cia4 ,moore1 ,thomas1 #da4 ,nadaud1 ,gustav1 #ac4 ,phelps1 ,elizabeth ,stuart1 #ccj4 ,phillips1 ,charles1 #cba4 ,phillips1 ,wendell1 #bjb1 #bci1 #bij1 #bif1 #big4 ,pierce1 ,etta ,w41 #acc4 ,poe1 ,edgar ,allan1 #dbf4 ,quincy1 ,josiah1 #bhd4 ,richards1 ,laura ,e41 #dad4 ,riley1 ,james ,whitcomb1 #cbc1 #cbd1 #cei4 ,robbins1 ,r4 ,d4 ,c41 #aah4 ,roosevelt1 ,theodore1 #bfd1 #bhj4 ,savonarola1 ,girolamo1 #bbh4 ,saxe1 ,john ,g41 #chd4 ,scott1 ,walter1 #abc4 ,sheridan1 ,richard ,brinsley1 #ded4 ,sienkiewicz1 ,henryk1 #a4 ,smith1 ,f4 ,hopkinson1 #cge4 ,stephens1 ,alexander ,h41 #bdc4 ,streeter1 ,r4 ,m41 #chg4 ,sumner1 ,charles1 #bab1 #bdh4 ,taylor1 ,benjamin ,f41 #cgc4 ,tennyson1 ,alfred1 ,lord1 #cb1 #fg1 #id1 #adf4 ,thompson1 ,maurice1 #ach4 ,togo1 ,admiral ,heihaichiro1 #bdb1 #bga4 ,van ,dyke1 ,henry1 #gb4 ,verne1 ,jules1 #djh4 ,weatherly1 ,f4 ,e41 #cbh4 ,webster1 ,daniel1 #ahe1 #ahh1 #aia1 #aii4 ,whitman1 ,walt1 #hh4 ,whittier1 ,john ,g41 #add1 #adi4 ,wilcox1 ,ella ,wheeler1 #aag4 ,williams1 ,henry ,l41 #dcg4 ,,announcements ,,books ,,in ,,public ,,speaking ,by ,,robert ,i4 ,,fulton1 late of ,ohio ,wesleyan ,university1 and ,,thomas ,c4 ,,trueblood1 ,university of ,michigan ,,essentials ,,of ,,public ,,speaking 7,second ,edition7 ,this book shows the relation of intellect1 feeling1 and gesture to the elements of effective expression in oratorical and dramatic art4 ,it treats the elements of expression in their simplest and most natural order1 showing their application to the various sentiments and emotions1 and provides exercises in the technic of voice and action4 ,in illustration of the principles full selections as well as illustrative passages are given1 together with the necessary explanation1 xiv #bej pages ,,british ,,and ,,american ,,eloquence ,accounts of the lives and public careers of twenty-two noted ,british and ,american orators together with selections from their greatest speeches4 ,the purpose is to point out by concrete example the abstract principles of public speaking which should guide the beginner4 ,the book aims to select1 adapt1 and utilize in a single volume such helpful material as the student of public speaking can find elsewhere only in many separate volumes4 #djc pages1 illustrated ,,choice ,,readings ,,from ,,popular ,,and ,,standard ,,authors ,the number1 variety1 and interest of the selections are noteworthy4 ,they include prose and verse from a wide range of writers4 ,selections are grouped in fourteen divisions1 according to the nature of the subject matter1 xix #gbi pages ,,standard ,,selections ,edited by ,,robert ,i4 ,,fulton1 ,,thomas ,c4 ,,trueblood1 and ,,edwin ,p4 ,,trueblood ,the purpose of the book is to provide material in poetry and oratory that has never before appeared in books of this character1 and to stimulate interest in the authors represented4 ,nearly two hundred selections of varying character are included4 #eaj pages ,,ginn ,,and ,,company ,,publishers ,,extempore ,,speaking ,by ,,edwin ,,dubois ,,shurter1 ,associate ,professor of ,public ,speaking in the ,university of ,texas #abmo1 cloth1 #agh pages ,this manual provides an analysis of the art of extempore speaking1 together with specific examples and exercises4 ,it is distinctly modern in treatment1 although drawing also from the rich fund of material in classical and modern literature4 ,,masterpieces ,,of ,,modern ,,oratory ,by ,,edwin ,,dubois ,,shurter #abmo1 cloth1 #cfi pages ,these fifteen orations1 edited with introductions and notes1 are intended to furnish models for students of oratory1 argumentation1 and debate4 ,the orators represented are ,burke1 ,webster1 ,lincoln1 ,phillips1 ,curtis1 ,grady1 ,watterson1 ,daniel1 ,porter1 ,reed1 ,beveridge1 ,cockran1 ,schurz1 ,spalding1 and ,van ,dyke4 ,,vocal ,,expression ,,in ,,speech ,by ,,henry ,,evarts ,,gordon1 late ,professor of ,public ,speaking in the ,university of ,iowa #abmo1 cloth1 viii #cae pages ,a fresh and stimulating treatise on the fundamentals of public speaking from its cultural side1 intended primarily for college classes but easily adaptable to high-school use4 ,a thorough program of study is provided for speech melody1 speech quality1 speech rhythm1 and speech dynamics1 accompanied by several hundred illustrative selections4 ,,ginn ,,and ,,company ,,publishers ,,books ,,in ,,public ,,speaking ,,the ,,making ,,of ,,arguments ,by ,,john ,,hays ,,gardiner1 late of ,harvard ,university ,a brief course in argumentation to meet the needs of the future average citizen rather than of the few who go on to law or political life4 ,the examples used throughout the book and the exercises and questions suggested for argument are drawn from matters in which young people from eighteen to twenty-two have a natural1 lively interest and which they argue about in real life4 ,the aim of the book is to develop habits of analysis and effective presentation of facts which will serve the student in the practical concerns of later life4 #bij pages ,,the ,,principles ,,of ,,argumentation 7,revised and ,enlarged ,edition7 ,by ,,george ,p4 ,,baker1 ,harvard ,university1 and ,h4 ,b4 ,,huntington1 ,brown ,university ,this book holds an established place as one of the standard textbooks in the subject4 ,fundamental matters of analytical investigation1 sifting of evidence1 brief-drawing1 and persuasive adaptation are clearly illustrated by numerous extracts and are made teachable by varied practical exercises4 ,the book as a whole develops intellectual power and avoids that predigested argumentative material which enables a student easily to remember--and surely to forget--how to argue4 #fgg pages ,,oral ,,english ,by ,,john ,m4 ,,brewer1 ,los ,angeles ,state ,normal ,school ,this textbook treats oral ,english as a subject independent both of literature and of written composition4 ,it furnishes the student brief directions1 detailed exercises1 and suggestive lists of topics of every-day interest which will provide material for doing with conscious direction of thought the things which unconsciously are done in the pursuit of every other study--arguing1 explaining1 and telling4 ,it embodies the latest ideas in the teaching of this subject by substituting for imitation of masterpieces of eloquence a direct and effective way of speaking without unnecessary adornment1 more fitted to be of practical use to men and women of to-day4 #cif pages ,,ginn ,,and ,,company ,,publishers ,,books ,,in ,,public ,,speaking ,,elements ,,of ,,public ,,speaking ,by ,,harry ,,garfield ,,houghton1 ,university of ,wisconsin xi #ccc pages ,this textbook aims to teach the student1 ,first1 how to organize his subject matter into clear and logical form for purposes of public utterance4 ,second1 how to cultivate his powers of expression so as to enable him to convey his ideas most effectively4 ,the book combines a definite amount of accurately expressed theory with a maximum of practice4 ,special emphasis has been laid upon clear and accurate thinking as the foundation for all expression1 and each principle has been treated in its relation thereto4 ,the book1 while intended primarily for college courses1 will also prove valuable in classes in practical speaking in preparatory schools1 as an aid in declamatory work 7for this purpose ,chapter ,,ii1 ,the ,conversational ,mode1 and ,appendix ,,ii1 ,declamation1 are particularly useful71 and as a reference book4 ,,the ,,brief-,,maker',s ,,notebook ,by ,,warren ,c4 ,,shaw1 ,dartmouth ,college vii #bdj pages1 in ,biflex ,binder ,the ,brief-,maker's ,notebook presents a logical system for analyzing debaters' propositions and supplies a blank form of brief based upon this system4 ,it is devised to accomplish several aims3 #a4 ,to enable the debater to use a loose-leaf system of note-taking4 #b4 ,to help him to investigate details of his case without losing his grip upon the problem as a whole4 #c4 ,to enable him to write a brief directly from his notes without rearranging the material4 #d4 ,to crystallize his methods of analysis4 #e4 ,to apply the theory of argumentation in the preparation of a debate and to develop thoroughness and accuracy4 ,the material consists of sets of forty pages each4 ,each set is designed for the complete handling of one proposition4 ,,ginn ,,and ,,company ,,publishers